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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

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The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. Nursing home, length of stay, I think it was like back in 2010, at the end of life.

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

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Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Ruth: I do have to also say that it’s important to remember that feeding tube use and hospital transfers for people with advanced dementia has no demonstrated clinical benefit. Ruth: Sure.