University Health Network

"And, uh, thank you to you, but thank you to the wonderful staff at St. Michael's Hospital." Uh, because at the end, whether it could be St.

Mike's, it could be UHN, it could be any system in Canada, uh, and hopefully other places in the world that would come together to, uh, to, to make sure that you can pull somebody else, uh, through this.

And it also is a message that sometimes at the lowest points in your life, life is not over yet, and there's still hope.

And, you know, uh, there, there's still the belief that the system will work and that people will come together, uh, you know, selflessly to be able to pull somebody through, uh, a catastrophic event like that.

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And so he's built out a little tool called Radlingo.

So it's an app like Duolingo and it has a leaderboard and it's, you know, gamifying education, anything we can do to help kind of move the needle and make it in a way to sharpen our skills.

Three quarters of a million Canadians are afflicted with dementia, and it has a profound effect on their families and caregivers and our economy, not to mention personal finances.

Guests this half hour are Dr. Donald Weaver, neurologist at the University Health Network, Mark Shimkovitz, senior wealth advisor and portfolio manager at Raymond James, and Amy Kupel, CEO of the Ontario Caregiver Organization.

Welcome to you all.

Hi.

On this World Alzheimer's Day, we have our three experts.

You've heard from all three, the caregiving angle, the financial angle, and the medical angle.

Mark Shimkovitz there, wealth advisor Amy Kupel with the Ontario Caregiver Organization, and Dr. Donald Weaver at the University Health Network.

We have all three until the top of the hour.

Love him or hate him.

Dr. Magda Havis, who's actually Toronto local, doing some research at UHN.

Blinded, by the way, so turning on, so some people are more sensitive than others, but I think, and here's my little two cents for what it's worth, is that especially ages zero through five, I mean, you're starting to get a thicker skull by that time, but there's that... chance I think that this is, we're bioelectric beings, right? We're not just, by the way, I want to pick your brain on TDCS in a second as well, see what you guys think of treatment-wise, but any electromagnetic potential might theoretically be making capillaries weaker, more leaky, and I think maybe we have to, so here's the literature saying, it's saying no, the evidence linking EMF exposure to neurodermabial disorders is inconclusive, and remains a subject of ongoing research.

Can't give me a definitive answer.

That's led to a boom in social media posts about the condition, with some helpful and some misleading information.

This morning, we're joined by Dr. Nigel Haroun, head of the Rheumatology Division at UHN's Schroeder Arthritis Institute, with more on gout and how to manage it.

Good morning, Dr. Haroun.

Good morning, Matt.

And that was my goal initially.

But then after being on the wait list for quite some time, I got a call from UHN And they shared with me that there was an adult who was very deserving.

They understood why I wanted to donate to a child.

I think they reassured me.

Yeah, I can't lie.

It was a little bit scary, right? Everything became real at that point.

But something for me, you know, that while it was super real, the whole process leading up to getting that call, the staff and team at UHN have always made it a point to communicate my safety, right? The donor safety is the utmost importance for them, right? So if for whatever reason I was deemed it was unsafe for me to donate, they would have pulled the plug.

And at the same time, they told me if I wanted to say no, even the morning of surgery, that's okay.

He is an associate professor of medicine and clinician scientist with the University of Toronto, the Kremble Research Institute, and Schroeder Arthritis Institute.

He's also the director of the lupus program at Toronto's University Health Network.

His research is focused on patients with systemic lupus.

Also, measurement science with a particular interest in the assessment of disease activity, patient reported outcomes, and cognitive function.

We had an underwater polypectomy simulator.

And then Andras Fekso at UHN had developed a nice model for endoscopic suturing.

But again, those were primarily for those trainees that were interested in those advanced procedures.

And again, the amount of simulation time required in order to achieve mastery was insufficient.