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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. Four percent. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Please.

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Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not

FDA Law Blog

There has been no evidence that marijuana’s schedule should change since the last rescheduling review in 2016. Rescheduling increases the ability to research cannabis to determine the physical and mental impacts of cannabis use. In other words, no rescheduling.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

These were usually very physically demanding, low paid, often usually non-union work, that they worked their whole lives and were hanging on by their fingernails. In what moral universe is a federal government deeply subsidizing my housing and not subsidizing that of my patients? They were working usually more than one job.

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

GeriPal

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. 2015, 2016. Within two years we converted to clinical program serving in a safety net healthcare system, 50% African-American, 6% dual eligible. Malaz: Yeah.