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

GeriPal

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. In 2016 there were about a thousand MAID deaths, in 2021 there were about 10,000. So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness.

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Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not

FDA Law

There has been no evidence that marijuana’s schedule should change since the last rescheduling review in 2016. The regulated cannabis marketplace brings in billions of dollars in revenue into state and federal governments, with predictions that cannabis sales will exceed $53 billion by 2027. In other words, no rescheduling.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? ” On that grand rounds, you differentiated structural factors from … I forget what the word was, individual- Margot: Individual risk factors. Why do we say “over 50” is “older” for homeless persons, why not 65? Margot: After 50.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

2015, 2016. Within two years we converted to clinical program serving in a safety net healthcare system, 50% African-American, 6% dual eligible. And then 2016 after CMMI finished the evaluation, it looked good, nothing happened. Just to let you know, Eric, we have to give the credit to our federal government. Diane: Yeah.