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Aphasia, Communication, and Caregiving

What “recovery” really means in aphasia is left unsaid in this novel.
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I Was Never “Just” a Visitor

Caregivers are not visitors. Hospital policies that restrict visits from family caregivers can harm patients.
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Humanity on the Brink: Narratives of Caregiving and Dementia

Newly published first-person stories of the challenges, struggles, and joys of providing care for family members or another close person with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia "depict humanity on the brink."
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On Being a Foster Parent During Covid

I knew that being a foster parent would be demanding, but I was unprepared for the extent of the challenges, which were exacerbated by the pandemic.
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Old Jews

Old Jews are why I am who I am. Not only the old Jews you’d expect–my grandparents and great-grandparents, who came here because, as I learned for a family history...
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Ethical Perspectives on Advance Directives for Dementia

Four articles in the Hastings Center Report make an array of claims about  whether advance directives should or should not be used to instruct caregivers to withhold oral feeding of...
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Envisioning Civic Palliative Care

Dying cannot be understood properly, or responded to well, without recourse to the connections between the dying experience and the larger social structures that make up a social and civic...
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Love and Boundaries in Medicine

It’s a little-known and rarely discussed fact of medical practice that doctors value the ability to love our patients. If the thought of doctors loving patients makes you queasy, be...
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Should We Get Ready for Prime Time?

For the first few years after my husband Howard died, I talked to him often. These were not ghostly, paranormal encounters; I was just thinking out loud about my life...
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The Lady Writer and the Valkyrie: Magda Szabo’s Novel The Door

An old woman desperately needs medical attention. Yet she fiercely refuses every offer of help from friends, neighbors, and the local doctor. No one will get past her door, she...
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