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  • Read more: The Danger of Speaking for the Dying Patient with “Intellectual Disabilities”
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    The Danger of Speaking for the Dying Patient with “Intellectual Disabilities”

    After suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for more than two decades, my grandma quietly passed away at a nursing home in California several years ago. This may sound like a story too common to tell in the United States. However, my grandma never wanted to go to a nursing home in the first place. As someone…

  • Read more: Loneliness as epidemic
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    Loneliness as epidemic

    By Wendy S. Salkin Just a few weeks ago, The New York Times ran an article confirming that, indeed, we are facing an epidemic of loneliness. There is “mounting evidence” that links loneliness to illness, as well as “functional and cognitive decline.” What’s more, loneliness turns out to be a better predictor of early death…