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Nursing homes and hospice care are supposed to provide safe refuges for older people and those near the ends of their lives. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they have been just …
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Alzheimer’s disease runs in photographer Jalal Shamsazaran’s family: his aunt, grandfather, and father, Majid, all have been diagnosed. So as he documented the final years of his father’s life, in …
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With more than 250,000 Americans killed by Covid-19, it’s time to think about reimagining Black Friday. Police officers in Philadelphia gave the Friday after Thanksgiving its dark name in 1966 …
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Imagine this scenario, one that’s not uncommon for people diagnosed with incurable cancer: You and your cancer doctor decide that you should try chemotherapy to prolong your life. Six months …
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