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

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But from her piece, one of the key aspects from my perspective in reading it is that here we have hospice and palliative care social worker, deeply committed to the field, deeply committed to improving quality of life for people near the end of life. We got somebody in between us ,too. Alex: Yeah, we have three people in studio.

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

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Ruth: There were some people who got comfort palliative care in the nursing home at end of life. We start off discussing the findings of Ruth Palan Lopez’s publication in JAMA IM on the ADVANCE study. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Rehabbed to Death. Transcript. Joan: Thanks.