GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Yael 10:34 More like a living will kind of a thing. Let’s say they’re in the ICU now on a ventilator. So on the clinical side, people are really focused on how long do they have to be on the ventilator and managing that. Eric 27:31 They are unrepresented, they’re in the ICU on a ventilator.

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Healthcare proxy Social worker Ventilator Geriatrics 275

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. Eric: While they’re ventilated in the ICU, would you do that too? Lauren: Shock.

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Geriatrics Ventilator Events Palliative care 243

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation. 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. Who are they? What’s important to them in their quality of life?

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Palliative care Geriatrics Palliate Document 189