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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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But we know that 30% of all decedents who are Medicare beneficiaries either die from dementia or have an existing diagnosis of dementia, which is something we talk about quite often, Joel and I. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia. We’re available, palliative care. Joel: Yeah.

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

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Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy.

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