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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. 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. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Eric: Definitely MAID- Alex: Eric knows, MAID in Canada Eric: Medical Aid In Dying in Canada. Alex: Definitely not on amyloid drugs. Definitely putting a little bit more prep time in. Like us, subscribe to us on your podcast feed. Alex: You may have seen her on Prior podcast playing piano. Alex: That one’s easy.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. So we followed Gretchen Schwarze’s definition, which was 1% or higher inpatient mortality was considered high-risk. You’ll have a feeding tube. My mother-in-law, Ruth Leman, was a professor emeritus at American University.