Together with patients, caregivers, clinicians, and community partners, The Dartmouth Institute is co-designing a peer-to-peer network for serious illness caregivers, and those who are in bereavement. “People living with serious illness spend most of their time outside of health care facilities, facing day-to-day challenges and surprises that do not need clinical solutions, but that can be unsettling or stressful. We think that caregivers of people living with serious illness have a particular expertise gained from their own lived experience. A network that could link caregivers with each other may help them share this expertise and improve their sense of wellbeing and create connections that lessen isolation”, said Kathy Kirkland, MD. Read more here.