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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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I initially got into it because I was really looking at the psychophysiology of stress, and so how stress affects our health and how relationships were always a component of that. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress. Or was that just the lingering conversations?

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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Her most recent book is Elderhood. 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. Louise, welcome back to GeriPal.