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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

So in some ways, it was an iatrogenic event. There was also a second event in that the pressures chosen weren’t the ideal ones. I mean, obviously nobody fed her the pill with the intention of choking her, but it wasn’t like suddenly she had another event out of the blue because she had a bad heart. And I was.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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Alex: But the longer title’s Ethno-Geriatrics and Special Populations. Sometime after the age of 50, we could identify an event where the folks who were first homeless before 50, there wasn’t a clear crisis that precipitated it. Margot: Yes. But they were poor, really poor. They got sick. Their spouse or partner got sick.