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

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So in 2010, there were about 150,000 incarcerated people in California. But when we look at people over the age of 55, 55 and older, we had about 11,000 in 2010, and now we have 18,000 people aged 55 and older. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. So we’ve gone from 150,000 to 100,000.

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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. Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: Discussion of a Multinational Trial with Lieve Van den Block. We found their physical environment was drastically different; where those with low feeding tube rates had really a rather beautiful physical environment. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Sure.