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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

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We are in the midst of a staggering mental health crisis. Thousands of children and adolescents spend days at time in Emergency Departments waiting for definitive mental health disposition. Government. Leyenaar; Pediatric Mental Health Boarding. McEnany, Olutosin Ojugbele, Julie R. McLaren, JoAnna K.

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

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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. And I think that you can actually see this if you view it as a public health issue for a second. Four percent. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Please. Leonie: Right.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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When they think about homelessness, their mind goes to what I would call the individual risk factors, things like having a substance use disability or mental health disability. It is completely disconnected, like a scatter plot, between things like rates of substance use and mental health. Those are structural factors.

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

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2015, 2016. And then 2016 after CMMI finished the evaluation, it looked good, nothing happened. So if you think about dementia, it’s on the intersection of aging stigma and mental health stigma. Just to let you know, Eric, we have to give the credit to our federal government. Malaz: Yeah. Diane: Yeah.