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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. Many years ago for the first study; I believe it was in 2009, 2010; I met with Susan Mitchell at the Institute for Aging Research, and told her that I wanted to study the use of feeding tubes for people with advanced dementia. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice.

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

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And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? This is just because this arose organically in clinical practice as a way of balancing these underlying competing ethical issues. And the family members said, okay, now’s the time we need to honor her request.

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