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Dementia and the modern research universe - audio edition
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Dementia and the modern research universe - audio edition

On delaying philosophical death as long as possible

I didn’t expect to be writing about dementia this week. I have been, gratefully, largely untouched by it. My paternal grandfather suffered from it in his final years, but he was 93 when he died, and (actually) well taken care of in a small care home in northeastern Iowa, near the farm where my father had grown up. Some of the friends of my parents and i…

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