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Priorities for health care change at the end of life. This is so whether our patients have a specific illness that is expected to be fatal or not. Many frail elderly people require palliative care or care that uses its principles; we hope therefore to be capable at it and to understand it in broad outline.
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Sloan, J.P. (1997). Palliative Care. In: Protocols in Primary Care Geriatrics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1884-5_15
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