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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? And we found out in our work that something like 70 or 80% of patients with dementia who have surgery come from the community, who are coming from home. What does it mean for functional status, symptom management, location of care? Alex: Mm-hmm.