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

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Many residents dying with untreated symptoms, often after multiple high hospitalizations, life prolonging treatments, and very little specialty palliative care. Caroline: Through our pilot work, we’ve definitely been able to demonstrate that it’s acceptable, feasible. Alex: What hope is there?

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

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It’s at this point where she’s talking about highly aggressive life-prolonging treatment. Definitely in this section, you wouldn’t use it in a randomized trial, but … Eric: So it’s okay to push back a little bit if you think something’s important? What happened here?