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Richard Smith: What do you want your care home to be like?

Posted on July 21, 2008July 22, 2008 by BMJ

At a conference I attended recently we were all asked to think about what kind of care home we would like. This was a truly shocking question. It was a conference on death and dying, and I’d thought a lot about a good death. For me the thought of being in a care home was […]

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