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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

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Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. But now we have older people dying of older people illnesses. He struggled with mental illness, substance use disorder. Michele: Yep. Eric: Mm-hmm.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

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There was some at the time, which was 2006 so also, it’s been a while since the guidance has been updated and other guidance for other viral infections like hepatitis B and C. I mean, that’s an important element of people with chronic illness coming to the end of life anyway. Eric 18:33 Why did they do that?