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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

The songs about how saving lives is actually a pretty complicated business. Sheryl: Largely the people who live there as opposed to government funds. And that’s the complication here is there’s so many things that the staff can be trained on. And I also think it’s a little bit topical. Alex: Yeah. Eric: Nice.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Her most recent book is Elderhood. Alex 15:13 This is really complicated. So elderly people who aspirated, got pneumonia, had an mi, didn’t get hauled off to the emergency room on an ambulance crew so they could die in the ER. He made it very clear that he called me by looking my number up in the phone book.