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He died in 2024. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. I think it’s kind of multilayered and I think that one area in particular to intervene is patients going into long term care. This is Eric Widera.

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It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric: Just for the aging population, what about long-term care? Katie: Absolutely. Katie: Yep.

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But at the same time, we’re saving a lot of moral distress of the long term care staff in terms of having to bear watching people not have thirst needs addressed. Who do you give informed consent to? It’s just not quite as quick or effective as they had desired in their advanced directive.

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