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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

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It’s a story about caregiving. That caregiving piece, like I want to see something actionable. How can this be, somebody who’s so deeply invested and embedded in hospice and palliative care, caregiver for her mother? It’s at this point where she’s talking about highly aggressive life-prolonging treatment.

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

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Caroline: As a very young caregiver myself for my parents who had advanced dementia, as a teenager, this was just a really powerful song that just hit home as a caregiver. Many residents dying with untreated symptoms, often after multiple high hospitalizations, life prolonging treatments, and very little specialty palliative care.