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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? We think there are some cases, certain kinds of illnesses or conditions or operations, where people have the surgery and never get out of bed again. What does it mean for functional status, symptom management, location of care? Eric: Yeah.