October 16, 2024

Seniors

Legalized Weed is Landing More Seniors in the E.R.

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The Study The study looked at 2,322 emergency room visits for cannabis poisoning among people 65 and older in Ontario. The visits spanned 2015 through 2022, allowing researchers to see what happened before and after October 2018, when Canada legalized the sale of dried cannabis, and January 2020, when the sale of edibles was legalized….

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Why Some Seniors Are Giving Up on Romance

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Joy Lorton, 80, has been married and divorced four times. “I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when everybody was supposed to get married and have kids, so I did that,” said Ms. Lorton, who lives in Olympia, Wash., and has three daughters, seven grandchildren and a gaggle of great-grandchildren. But each of her…

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