Providing Culturally Centered Palliative Care to Latino Older Adults with Dementia and Their Families

Leah V Estrada1, Rosa M Gonzalez-Guarda, Jennifer M Reckrey

  • 1Leah V. Estrada is assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York City, where Albert L. Siu is professor. Rosa M. Gonzalez-Guarda is professor at the Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, NC. Jennifer M. Reckrey is associate professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York City. William E. Rosa is assistant attending behavioral scientist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City. Nathan E. Goldstein is chair of the Department of Medicine and Joseph M. Huber Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH. Estrada and Rosa report receiving grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program. Contact author: Leah V. Estrada, leah.estrada@mssm.edu. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

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