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

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Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. What’s up with Medical aid in dying in Canada?

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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Lastly, we discuss Katie’s paper on substance use disorder in an aging population and how one can incorporate the 5 Ms (ie, matters most, medications, mind, mobility, and multicomplexity) into a framework for age-friendly care for older adults with substance use disorder. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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

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But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner. So if you are established program, the starting point is July 30th, 2024.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home. The other way to think about who’s eligible… I talked about coming at this from a diagnosis point of view, people with certain conditions that you need to be hospitalized for. Tacara: It’s quite different.

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