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Palliative Care in Long Term Care Settings

In Reply To: Starting Palliative Care in Nursing homes

Post Re:Starting Palliative Care in Nursing homes
Author: mrabow [CAPC/PCLC Faculty]
Date: May 29, 2009 3:17 pm
Hi,

Networking with others doing palliative care in nursing homes is key.

In the meantime, you might look at a paper in the Perspectives on Care at the Close of Life section in JAMA, by a national experts in the field.

It's
Meeting Palliative Care Needs in Post–Acute Care Settings: "To Help Them Live Until They Die"
Laura C. Hanson; Mary Ersek

and available at http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/collection/perspectives?page=3

best,
Mike Rabow, MD
Associate Director, UCSF Palliative Care Leadership Center
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