GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. Four percent. But that was separate from MAID.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Not the most common circumstances that people with serious illness face where attention and understanding of what my goals and values are. Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. ” Very specific, rare circumstance.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And then, the family, her kids got together, my wife and her brother and sister got together and said, wait a minute, mom did not want this, right? We think there are some cases, certain kinds of illnesses or conditions or operations, where people have the surgery and never get out of bed again. She has advance dementia. Eric: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices. It’s really a pretty traumatic experience for a lot of patients and families. AlexSmithMD. Transcript. Melissa: Sure.

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Family Families IT Patients 107

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Consider it a supplement to what you remember from Biochemistry and the instructions on the family’s laminated care plan sheet. 2016 Jan;37(1):3-15; quiz 16-7, 47. So, importantly, you may not have a positive family history. You also might see a family history of multiple miscarriages and or constant infinity.

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Consulting Individual Family Families 59

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness. I am part of some other work in the ICU world looking at time-limited trials and trying to better define what those are, how we talk about them, how we talk about them with patients and families. Kate: Sounds right.

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 116

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. Scientific American Letter to the Editor: Response to Downar et al.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. So the palliative performance scale, or PPS, is essentially a tool to help clinicians with prognostication for seriously ill or palliative care populations.

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Family Families Patient-Centered Patients 108