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Kiran Rabheru

Ottawa
As seen in: The Lancet, The Hill Times, Canadian Family Physician, Policy Options Politiques Magazine
Professor & Geriatric Psychiatrist, U of Ottawa; Past Board Chair, ILCC; Founding Past Chair, CCAA; Senior Investigator, Bruyere Health Research Institute, BHRI
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Person-centred long-term care for older persons: a new Lancet Commission

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By Anne Margriet Pot, Kiran Rabheru, Mabel Chew
| The Lancet Verified
4 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights A/HRC/51/27: older persons deprived of liberty—report of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, Claudia Mahler.
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How “old age” was withdrawn as a diagnosis from ICD-11

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By Julie Byles, Kiran Rabheru, Alexandre Kalache
| The Lancet Verified
The classification of the causes of death and diseases dates back to the 18th century. The International Statistical Institute adopted the first international classification of diseases in 1893. After 1948, WHO assumed responsibility for publishing the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) as a global, multilingual catalogue of known human diseases, medical conditions, and mental health disorders, to standardise disease diagnosis. The 11th revision (ICD-11) was launched on Jan 1, 2022.
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Not a disease: a global call for action urging revision of the ICD-11 classification of old age

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By Debanjan Banerjee, Kiran Rabheru, Gabriel O. Ivbijaro, Sanchari Mukhopadhyay
| The Lancet Verified
The inclusion of old age in the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) under general symptoms (code MG2A) and in the causality section of XT9T, has been justified by arguing that old age brings about several biological changes of vulnerability. 2 Khaltourina D Matveyev Y Alekseev A Cortese F Ioviţă A Aging fits the disease criteria of the International Classification of Diseases. Mech Ageing Dev.
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