Tag Archives: frailty

Celebrate-a-New-Year-by-putting-end-of-life-wishes-at-the-top-of-your-to-do-list Celebrate a New Year by putting end-of-life wishes at the top of your to-do list
By John Muscedere

Kicking off the New Year is a good time to put the task of making your end-of-life wishes at the top of your to-do list.

Frailty-and-the-new-Ageism Frailty and the new ageism
By Kenneth Rockwood

Should medicine be ageist? A young trainee doctor recently proposed to me that it should. Healthcare is overstretched, she argued. “We can’t do everything for everyone, so why spend money on old people, who have little chance of benefit?”

It's-time-to-change-the-way-we-view-exercise-for-frail-and-critically-ill-patients Exercise is not just for the fit, it helps the frail elderly and critically ill too
By Michelle Kho

Frail and critically ill patients can safely bike in the intensive care unit, even early in their ICU stay.

New Health Accord should reject per capita funding model New Health Accord should reject per capita funding model — and consider frailty instead
By John Muscedere and Samir Sinha

When the previous Health Accord expired in 2014, the Harper government unilaterally established a new funding model for federal health transfer payments to the provinces and territories based on an equal per capita basis.