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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

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And then we were involved, palliative care was consulted when the patient was really sick and decompensating in the ICU. And so really thinking about all the ways in which someone’s whole self is affected by serious illness and including the right members of each piece of their life to be part of the team. Eric: Lynn or Anne?

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

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nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. The reason that you’re in a nursing home is because you have some mix of serious illness and multimorbidity, usually functional impairments. And so we do have consultants who come in the building. Consider this: the majority of the 1.4