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This Community Case Study describes the progressive construction, over nearly four years, of an integrated cardiogeriatric heart failure pathway at H\u00f4pital La Porte Verte, Versailles, France. The pathway was developed iteratively through the phased implementation of complementary services, progressive clarification of professional roles, and repeated adaptation of coordination and escalation processes across inpatient, outpatient, home-based, and long-term care settings. Developed within a dedicated cardiogeriatrics department, the pathway connects acute inpatient care with structured post-discharge follow-up, remote monitoring, rapid-access day hospitals, advanced practice nurse-led coordination, hospital-at-home collaboration, long-term care facility outreach, pre-interventional geriatric evaluation, and palliative-oriented decision-making when appropriate. 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