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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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Really, a smart and caring woman. And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? So this is an intrinsically higher risk population, a population in many ways that is ideally suited for advance care planning.