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

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Sheryl: Largely the people who live there as opposed to government funds. Another one had to do with the category of medical and mental healthcare providers and care. So yeah, priorities, we have to prioritize things, but I don’t think the medical and mental healthcare components are really at the bottom of the list.

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

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Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. Were you administering scales to pick up on loneliness and isolation? What would it be?

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

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And Bill Andereck is still haunted by the decision he made to have the police break down the door to rescue his patient who attempted suicide in the 1980s, as detailed in this essay in the Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics. And so I thought about it a while, called, and sure enough, they brought him up to the emergency room.