In July, Jennifer O'Brien got the phone call that adult children dread.Her 84-year-old father, who insisted on living alone in rural New Mexico, had broken his hip.The neighbor who found him on the floor after a fall had called an ambulance.Ms. O'Brien is a health care administrator and consultant in Little Rock, Ark., and the widow of a palliative care doctor; she knew more than family members typically do about what lay ahead.
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