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Colorectal Cancer in Younger Individuals & The Importance of Hereditary Cancer Testing 

Myriad Genetics

Colorectal cancer, once considered a disease of the elderly, is now increasingly affecting younger individuals. A study by the American Cancer Society and published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians found that half of all new colorectal cancer diagnoses are in people 66 and younger. Singleton’s story In 2015, J.J.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Noelle Marie 01:24 I think it really speaks a lot to my own personal journey and I’m pretty sure a lot of trans and gender diverse individuals also resonate with and it really speaks about our transition, celebrating our authentic selves, how society views us and how we view ourselves when we stand in front of a mirror.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Jessie: Yes. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Which brings us to an article.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

And then the second one in 2015. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. In fact from the time he was diagnosed, he passed away within two and a half weeks.

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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. People across all diagnoses want hospice care. How do we make it better.

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

GeriPal

The MAID issue then came on the table in Canada after the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Carter v. So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness. All of the evidence shows that for mental illnesses in individual cases of mental illness, we cannot make those predictions. But that was separate from MAID.

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Impact of home care on healthcare use after a first diagnosis of dementia in older adults living with severe mental illness [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To describe individual characteristics and healthcare use in older adults with SMI across home care services (HCS) profiles before and after the first dementia diagnosis. Group 1 consisted of older individuals, mainly diagnosed in the hospital and with poorer COC. Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort study.

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