GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

If its potentially unsafe, but has robust evidence, well thats most of the treatments we offer seriously ill patients! Do elements of care that are often administered to seriously ill patients count? It’s just that he was foregoing things that we think would have provided him more benefit. Think vitamins. Think chemo.

Patient-Centered 79

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 79

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

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. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. Eric: Wait, so Bonnie Raitt sang a song about hospice in prison?

Family 133

Family Families IT Community 133