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

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Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. One of them is Karen Steinhauser’s Annals of Internal Medicine paper on, In Search of a Good Death. Rehabbed to Death.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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And the goal, even with comfort feeding only, and what was a revelation to me is it was introduced back in 2010 as a response to the recognition that tube feeding was fraught with problems, you know, caused decubitus ulcers, didn’t extend life. And also I’d rather know that I myself not going to be super thirsty.

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