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Caring for aging parents: Chronic Illness >

Heart and kidney failure, frailty, Alzheimer’s, Lung disease, Diabetes, Cancer

Comfort Care and Quality of Life >

The Palliative and Hospice approach: comfort and quality of life is what it’s all about

Understanding Medical Terms and Jargon >

Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation: CPR; Do Not Resuscitate: DNR; Allow Natural Death: AND

Culture, Traditions and Being Remembered >

Time honored customs can help at life’s end, and to keep memories alive.

Modern Medicine can keep you alive >

Heroic Measures: CPR, Breathing Machines, Feeding Tubes, Medications.

End of Life: Grief and Bereavement >

Knowing what End of Life looks like can ease the process; often grief starts long before the end.

Decision Makers: Consent and Conflict >

Surrogate, Substitute, Agent, Proxy: who will make sure your end of life wishes are followed.

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End of Life Planning Blog

Myths about aging, proud octogenerians

Jack Pinkus in action at Baycrest Jack Pinkus, retired pharmacist with 17 years on the Board on the Ontario Pharmacists Association opened his educational session at Baycrest by exploding the following myths: • Age will inevitably bring illness • Damage is already...

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Four medications cause most hospitalizations

Blood thinners and diabetes drugs – alone or in combination -  cause the most hospitalizations in older adults. This is a really enlightening report picked up by  New York Times, ‘Well’ editor, Tara Parker Pope. Aspirin, clopidogrel and other antiplatelet drugs that...

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