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BIDDEFORD, Maine

成人直播 medical student pens op-ed for 鈥楤angor Daily News鈥 about nursing home immersion program

Joshua Allen

Joshua Allen (COM, 鈥19) wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News about what it鈥檚 like to live in a nursing home. Allen learned about the experience firsthand as part of the Learning by Living program designed and implemented by Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Geriatric Medicine in the 成人直播鈥檚 College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Allen stayed at St. Andre Health Care in Biddeford for 10 days, living life as an elder nursing home resident with a stroke diagnosis. 鈥淏ecause of the many experiences I encountered, as a future physician, I will be mindful when I write prescriptions, as I truly understand now what it means to eat pureed foods, to take nighttime medications, and to be restricted from moving on one鈥檚 own or from going outside,鈥 wrote Allen. 鈥淚 have lived this life.鈥

 

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