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Caring for a loved one: Navigating the Challenges and Finding Support.
Some of you know that after retiring from active medical practice, I started working with family caregive...
"It Depends"
Some time ago, I was caring for a 94-year-old gentleman. An active senior, he lived alone in his small home, doing most everything for himself. Basic self-care tasks like eating, bathing...
 She can’t live alone anymore Â
So, your mom couldn’t live by herself anymore.
You found her medicine bottles under her bedroom pillow, and she couldn’t remember putting them there. She once was a r...
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For physicians, tight schedules, demanding workloads, and lack of training are just a few barriers to starting end-of-life advance care planning conversations with our patients. An even more daunti...
Vamshi Gunukula of DirectShifts, a physician staffing company, interviewed me on 3/4/21. We discuss a variety of issues that primary care doctors face, from end-of-life advance care planning to changi...