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As a teenager, I had the unfortunate but ultimately career-shaping experience of watching my maternal grandmother decline from Alzheimer's disease. She resided in a nursing home, where her final months were marked by repeated courses of antibiotics for infections and the use of restraints or medications to control her agitation before she died from one last infection. Seeing my grandmother in that state was so distressing that my mother eventually stopped taking the grandchildren to visit. My grandmother had little in the way of either comfort or company toward the end. In my medical training, I learned how my grandmother's . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, the Indiana University Center for Aging Research, and the Regenstrief Institute — all in Indianapolis.

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