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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: Definitely MAID- Alex: Eric knows, MAID in Canada Eric: Medical Aid In Dying in Canada. Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. Alex: Definitely not on amyloid drugs. Alex: That one’s easy. Why are they doing this?

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APRIL 14, 2022

And I think that we would kind of enthusiastically say that it is definitely part of our role as palliative care clinicians to have a certain level of primary addiction, medicine, knowledge and competence. Eric: And that pain protocol significantly reduced behavioral issues in dementia nursing home patients.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. People start thinking about putting them in a nursing home. Diane: Huge.

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MARCH 24, 2023

Lauren: Yeah, I think I can definitely see Joe’s point of view. Yes, my hair is definitely on fire. They’re really excellent, and if I have any complaint about them at all, it’s that they could have been issued in 2008, 2009. Eric: Great. Lauren, what do you think about you? Eric: Yeah. We have one session.

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JUNE 30, 2022

So we followed Gretchen Schwarze’s definition, which was 1% or higher inpatient mortality was considered high-risk. And we found out in our work that something like 70 or 80% of patients with dementia who have surgery come from the community, who are coming from home. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008.

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