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...given IV nutrition during the last three months of life. These interventions can themselves cause distress and pain while providing, at best, questionable benefit and minimal prolongation of life, experts say. Among the family members who directed these residents' care, however, those who believed that the resident had less than six months to live and understood the nature of advanced dementia were less likely to intervene aggressively than caregivers who lacked such understanding. "Clinicians, patients' families and nursing-home staff need to recognize and treat advanced dementia as a terminal illness requiring palliative care," wrote Sachs in his editorial, noting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Redefining Dementia as a Terminal Illness | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

Experts say part of the reason it is so common to intervene in dementia cases is that the patient, by definition, cannot make medical decisions autonomously, leaving a relative or friend to serve as their health-care proxy. "Family members are much less likely to forgo treatments or let go. An 80-year-old patient will tell you, 'I have lived a good, long life. I have no regrets.' But talk to his 50-year-old son, and he isn't ready. Being the decision maker for someone else is a much harder thing to do," says Sachs, who says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Redefining Dementia as a Terminal Illness | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

Paul said that he is launching a campaign to reduce postering in the Yard as part of a project for his junior Social Studies tutorial. He is currently still in the process of organizing leaders to help jumpstart the movement. Interested in this potential paper-less revolution? Read on, after the jump...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble | Title: Posters Be Gone? | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

...salary cap but also made most of the players indentured servants. In the NFL there are two positions: stars and parts. Teams discard broken parts, which is why the average playing career is just a couple of years, leaving behind hundreds of wrecked bodies. Once a player become less useful, his contract, like his bones, can be broken. (See TIME's top 10 sports comebacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Rush Limbaugh Belongs in the NFL | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

...including Jim Irsay. But the notion that you need to occupy some kind of moral high ground to be able to extract profit from a monopoly sport that routinely exploits its criminally inclined workforce leaves me unmoved. The NFL is just another big business - why should it be anything less - only with a huge amount of ego attached to it. Rush should fit in quite well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Rush Limbaugh Belongs in the NFL | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

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