Lennore Greenfield: A Case Study

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Lenore Greenfield suffer with the early stages of dementia. She thought that her husband of 52 years old had stopped loving her and left. In 2014, Greenfield suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized and she had to stay in nursing facilities. Alex Carington visits her 88 years old mother every other day. She didn't want her mother to be in the nursing facility because she didn't know how the people that work there treated her mother. Therefore, she has been very concern with the medication regimen of her mother, and She tries to keep track of the long list of strange pills prescribed for her mother.
She discovered her mother was on a new drug called Nuedexta a little red pill. An inappropriate and potentially fraudulent pill use to treat

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