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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: Dana Mukamel on How Widespread Dementia is in Nursing Homes
Description: Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Dana Mukamel from the University of California, Irvine on her recent paper examining whether residents diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias are spread out across nursing homes or concentrated in a subset of nursing homes.She and co-authors found that residents with dementia tend to be dispersed, with the vast majority residing in homes that treated residents with other diagnoses.Order the June 2023 issue of Health Affairs.Read the Issue's Table of Contents.Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd...