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Q&A: Cannabis Use Tied to Reduced Working Memory

Physician's Weekly

Gowin and his colleagues analyzed data from 1,003 adults between 22 and 36 years of age who had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), urine toxicology, and cannabis use results collected at one academic site between 2012 and 2015 as part of the Human Connectome Project. It’s more complicated than that. The cohort (mean age, 28.7

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. They were more likely to have a major inpatient surgical complication. She falls and breaks her hip.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. Really, the inputs into care and some of the outcomes that patients have experienced.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

There’s obviously private hospitals, academic hospitals, community hospitals. And I think this is something that I’m continuing to think about and excited to work with other people who are thinking about this as well because it’s very complicated and challenging. And then was trying to find different hospitals.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

I moved to Boston in 2015 to start my PhD and I’ve always worked clinically at MGH during the process, but I was very interested in this notion of measuring function and frailty. Tamra: It’s incredibly complicated because to date, there’s not really a validated tool that’s mandated to be used across all settings.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

Julien, let’s start off with, congratulations by the way and Lauren too, the CHEST paper that just got published on Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults in the ICU between 1998 and 2015. I think it’s really, really complicated. Julien: It’s a good question. Julien: I like this question.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. The MAID issue then came on the table in Canada after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Carter v. So figured out a little harmonica- Eric: That was wonderful.

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