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

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Alex 01:27 We’re delighted to welcome back Tim F a rrell, who’s a geriatrician, associate chief for Age Friendly care at the University of Utah and chair of the American Geriatric Society Ethics Committee. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Tim, welcome back to GeriPal.

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

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Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. I think I’m heartened by the fact that over the last decade or so, the definition of advance care planning has evolved. Welcome back, Rebecca. Rebecca: Can I jump in.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I’m going to turn to you Lauren. Eric: Yeah.

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

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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. Alex 06:40 Legalese, the Ayn Rand version and more. And we have much higher adherence and response rates.

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

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Most of the debate seems rather wonky, as honestly it feels like we are getting stuck in the weeds of semantics and definitions, like what counts as ACP versus in the moment decisions. Rachelle: One of the things, they are definitely ordered steps, right? What are your values? I’m healthy.” So you need to do them in order.

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Books on Becoming A Better Mentor (and Better Person): Bob Arnold

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It helped me to understand and justify my interest in (this won’t surprise you) EVERYTHING related to geriatrics or palliative care. The post Books on Becoming A Better Mentor (and Better Person): Bob Arnold appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. It’s more of a conversation.

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