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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago. That will be the last one in his life.