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Dementia doctors, provinces differ on question of advance consent in MAID

CITYVOTE 2026: Live election coverage Posted October 27, 2026 4:00 am. TORONTO — As the federal government prepares to table new legislation that would allow advance requests for medical assistance in dying, the stark difference in opinion between two provinces highlights an ongoing debate about what constitutes true consent among people who have dementia. Justice Minister Sean Fraser announced on Oct. 7 that federal legislation was coming to decriminalize providing MAID to people with dementia and other conditions that take away the capacity to consent if they ask for it in advance while they’re still mentally capable. But it’s up to provincial governments to decide whether — and how — to allow people to make advance requests and have those wishes fulfilled in the future. The positions of two provinces are already clear. Quebec legalized advance requests on Oct. 30, 2024. Alberta, on…

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Teaching the Effects of Facial Processing in Babies

Aimed at integrating cutting-edge psychological science into the classroom, columns about teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science offer advice and how-to guidance about teaching a particular area of research or topic in psychological science that has been the focus of an article in the APS journal Current Directions in Psychological Science. Pickron, C. B., & Bayet, L. (2026). From a baby’s point of view: How infants’ face diets shape their face perception. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 35(4), 247–253. Imagine you’re a baby in a stroller in New York City, traveling a local sidewalk on the way to daycare. The faces you see are mostly smiling—who doesn’t love to see a baby?—but that’s not all. Some faces belong to older people, some younger. Some faces have darker skin, some lighter. People have hair that is long, short, black, blonde, gray, curly, and…

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Playing video games with trusted friends may reduce addiction risks

To understand how the social environment alters a player’s mental state, the researchers looked at two established psychological frameworks. The first is the pleasure-arousal theory, which separates emotions into two dimensions. One dimension tracks how pleasant an experience feels, while the other tracks how much it stimulates or arouses the person. The second framework is brain reward circuitry theory. This theory suggests that pleasure and arousal activate entirely different neural pathways in the human brain. According to these frameworks, feelings of comfort, harmony, and contentment increase pleasure but lower physical and emotional arousal. In contrast, surprises and intense excitement boost both pleasure and arousal at the same time. The research team hypothesized that high pleasure encourages players to return to a game, building long-term loyalty. High arousal provides the…

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She Moves Into One of 34 Memory-Care Beds at a $123.5 Million Senior Community. Medicare Won’t Pay for Her Long-Term Stay

A family picks a memory-care room for their mother, watches Medicare cover her hospital bills for years, and then gets blindsided the moment she moves into assisted living. The gap between what they assumed and what they owe reshapes every… Denver-based Janus Living (NYSE:JAN) bought Harmony at Greensboro, a North Carolina senior-living community, for $123.5 million in a deal reported on October 6, 2026. The community has 34 memory-care beds. Medicare won’t pay the long-term room, board and custodial-care charges for residents in those beds. Her Medicare card still works at Harmony. Doctor visits, hospital care, covered prescriptions and Part B therapy continue as before, subject to the 2026 Part B premium of $202.90 a month and the $283 annual deductible. Time spent under hospital observation generally doesn’t count toward that three-day inpatient requirement. Medicare Advantage plans…

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