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

GeriPal

So we thought that really coalescing around this term, which is still difficult because sometimes you think of unrepresented is politically unrepresented or it is a challenging definition with three parts to it that’s really hard to capture with any one term. This is Eric Widera. Alex 01:24 This is Alex Smith.

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

And I have gone through my not-so-long career, but it’s coming up on nine years now, seeing the way that we have talked about CPR in such problematic ways, in ways that really do not enable true informed consent. So I think consenting to a course of treatment involves that two-way conversation. Sunita: Oh, yeah.

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

GeriPal

Who do you give informed consent to? The definition of capacity in ethics and medicine, law. So I was thinking about the fast stages of dementia and could definitely imagine folks who are at a six level who are incontinent, who would say that’s not a quality of life that is tolerable to me. And for that person.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

I think the two spaces it comes out of, one is informed consent, which is this idea that people need to have an understanding of their disease and treatment. But if you have surgery, you’re definitely having some bad things happen to you because it hurts to have surgery. Gretchen: Absolutely. Is this all pie in the sky?

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5 tips to improve and better utilize your home care plans [Free tip sheet]

AlayaCare

How this helps the client: Making your goals and objectives SMART for the client allows for informed consent and agreement on the goals of care. “It’s really important to the goals that we put in place, because those are what we’re going to use to measure and to identify when we’re done.

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5 tips to improve and better utilize your home care plans [Free tip sheet]

AlayaCare

How this helps the client: Making your goals and objectives SMART for the client allows for informed consent and agreement on goals of care. It's really important to the goals that we put in place, because those are what we’re going to use to measure and to identify when we’re done.

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

GeriPal

Let them have this one piece of joy left, which is their opioid use disorder”, which, by definition, is not bringing them joy, right? I have to do them where I work, but I use them as an opportunity for informed consent. Jessie: Rught.