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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. Who do you give informed consent to? Thaddeus, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you. Joe, Josh, welcome back to Jerry Pal.

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

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I mean, and to this, this is to Alex’s point, of all of our blog posts, all of our purchasing behavior, you know what we’ve liked, part of that is really constructed by social media as well. But I do think that there’s a tension here, which is that in order for these algorithms to work, you need to feed them a ton of data.

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