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

GeriPal

Yael 10:34 More like a living will kind of a thing. And importantly, our social worker, Aunt Kelly, actually does a search and I would say 75% of the time she finds somebody maybe even higher than that, finds somebody who’s actually a surrogate. To have a social worker who’s dedicated in many places.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right? I think Bob draws your attention to Adam Grant’s books and his writing. Bob: I want to separate palliative care, which is a medical healthcare, nursing doctors, pharmacists, social workers from specialty palliative care. It’s in the middle.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

Kate 06:26 I invited patients with end stage renal disease to complete a short advanced directive, a medium length advanced directive with some more options and the really full, lengthy living will advanced directive with all the. I mean, Cass Sunstein and Dick Thauer wrote a book entitled nudge. Eric 11:31 Behavioral interventions or.

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