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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Oh, thanks.

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Candida auris: What You Need to Know About the New, Deadly Fungal Infection

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The fungus was fully identified and described in detail in a report by scientists in Japan in 2009, with U.S. Candida auris is a fungus, a type of yeast that causes severe illness in most patients diagnosed with the infection. cases first surfacing in 2016 in the United States in Illinois and New York.

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