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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. Joan: There’s very little bridging between rehabilitative and restorative care and palliative care. And Medicaid doesn’t pay enough to pay for long-term care.