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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

Tim 07:37 I was going to say the terminology really came from the legal literature that we kind of adopted, I think in that 2017 statement. But I remember very clearly, not too long after the 2017 statement was published, our office administrative assistant said, hey Tim, you got a phone call from someone I didn’t recognized.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. And I think social workers, advanced practitioners, nurses, really feel comfortable giving functional prognoses more so than time-based prognoses.

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