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Many patients with advanced dementia are moved around to different facilities at the end of their lives often unnecessarily.

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" Many patients with advanced dementia are moved around to different facilities at the end of their lives doctors say often unnecessarily. Researchers from Brown University found nearly one in five nursing home residents with advanced dementia -- either hospital or different nursing home in the last three months of life. Researchers say nursing homes may be inadvertently encouraged to send patients to the hospital because they can earn higher Medicare payments for patients who -- transferred to a hospital for three days."

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