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

GeriPal

So I didn’t mention this at the beginning, but after my time as President of Canadian Psychiatric Association, I actually also went on to be the physician chair of my former hospital’s MAID team. Because in medicine as somebody who works in the hospital, there’s always other treatment options.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there. These older patients are costing a ton in healthcare costs.

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

GeriPal

For this weekly treatment, the cancer team that had been consulted in the hospital told him this is nonsense. It’s like a third of people need chemical or physical restraints to keep that in. The major rock climbing magazine has an obituary section. And of course they were thrown out of the room immediately. The first bat.

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. Jeff: G1 is a hospital wing. He might want to write his mom and he’s not physically able to write anymore. So she found that incredibly moving, so that’s one of the songs on the album.

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Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

We talk about positive aspects of aging, cognitive screening, the line between legitimate concerns and ageism, ableism, advice for a geriatrician asked to comment on TV, frailty and physical disability, images in the press , historical situations including , and an upper age limit for the Presidency, among other issues. Ken 21:39 Well, yes.

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