PEMBlog

JUNE 14, 2023

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. It is also the final episode in a 5 episode series focused on agitation in children and adolescents.

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Mental Health Management Patient-Centered Illness 98

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. And importantly the patient has to have capacity and they have to be able to take the drug themselves. Four percent. Leonie, welcome to GeriPal.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” 2015, 2016.

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125