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

GeriPal

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Ruth: Thank you.

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

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There’s this beauty that’s there, whether we’re doing geriatrics, infectious disease, palliative care. It’s at this point where she’s talking about highly aggressive life-prolonging treatment. To me, I think, at a very basic level, so much about medicine is dehumanizing. What happened here?