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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Many years ago for the first study; I believe it was in 2009, 2010; I met with Susan Mitchell at the Institute for Aging Research, and told her that I wanted to study the use of feeding tubes for people with advanced dementia. And this person did die; he declined and was transferred to an inpatient hospice unit, and died the same day.