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

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If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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The ones who are publishing interesting articles are easy as we knew MAID is always going to be a controversial topic. Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. So, we did try to get some breadth of guests on our show. What do you think?

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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In today’s podcast we talk with surgeon Samir Shah and Health Services Researcher Joel Weissman about a pair of JAGS articles they published on the outcomes of high risk surgery and advance care planning among persons with dementia. And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip.