How do South Asian seniors in a large Canadian city perceive long-term care?

Objective: To understand how community-dwelling South Asian older adults understand and envision long-term care (LTC).

Design: Descriptive qualitative study.

Setting: The Region of Waterloo in Ontario.

Snapshot of family medicine around the world: Introducing the global family medicine website.

Objective: To develop an interactive, living map of family medicine training and practice; and to appreciate the role of family medicine within, and its effect on, health systems across the world.

Composition Of The Committee: A subgroup of the College of Family Physicians of Canada's Besrour Centre for Global Family Medicine developed connections with selected international colleagues with expertise in international family medicine practice and teaching, health systems, and capacity building to map family medicine globally. In 2022, this group received support from the Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine's Trailblazers initiative to advance this work.

Caring for refugees and newcomers in the post-COVID-19 era: Evidence review and guidance for FPs and health providers.

Objective: To guide clinicians working in a range of primary care clinical settings on how to provide effective care and support for refugees and newcomers during and after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Sources Of Information: The described approach integrates recommendations from evidence-based clinical guidelines on refugee health and COVID-19, practical lessons learned from Canadian Refugee Health Network clinicians working in a variety of primary care settings, and contributions from persons with lived experience of forced migration.

Main Message: The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified health and social inequities for refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, transient migrant workers, and other newcomers.

Demystifying spasticity in primary care.

Objective: To raise awareness of spasticity in primary care and clarify how to identify, diagnose, and manage it effectively and efficiently in patients with pre-existing neurologic conditions.

Sources Of Information: PubMed was searched for articles published from 1970 to May 2018 using the terms and . Other relevant guidelines and resources were reviewed and used.