When is Dialysis Appropriate in Nursing Home Patients?

This is from an article written by Ilene Warner-Maron, Ph.D. on August 16, 2013.
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Dr. Warner-Maron has been practicing nursing for 33 years, specializing in the care of geriatric patients. She is an Assistant Professor at St. Joseph’s University in the department of Interdisciplinary Health Services. Dr. Warner-Maron is the president of the Institute for Continuing Education and Research, providing educational programs for individuals seeking licensure in nursing home administration. She is president of Alden Geriatric Consultants, which provides clinical, administrative and medical-legal expertise to nursing homes and assisted living facilities.

In 1995, I began working for a organization that provided the educational program necessary for people seeking licensure as nursing home administrators. The administrator of the course, Gordon, was an older man, perhaps in his late 60s. Over the years, we developed a friendship and a common bond in trying to improve the way we prepared nursing home administrators. Over the next two decades, he became increasingly ill, first with Mantle cell lymphoma, then with the sequalae of the chemotherapy used to address his initial tumor and its additional sites, including several tracheostomies and a colon resection. He eventually turned over the program to others, including me.