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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. Yael 10:34 More like a living will kind of a thing.

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

GeriPal

I feel like we talked about this before, so I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but I maybe will sound like a broken record to get back to what is the definition of advance care planning? I think I’m heartened by the fact that over the last decade or so, the definition of advance care planning has evolved.

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

GeriPal

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. And I think social workers, advanced practitioners, nurses, really feel comfortable giving functional prognoses more so than time-based prognoses.

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