GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. But like, if you look at a surrogate document, it walks you through step by step, the hierarchy of decision makers, but also, like, how that surrogate should be making decisions. Because if you.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Eric: Just for the aging population, what about long-term care? I have to do them where I work, but I use them as an opportunity for informed consent. Katie: Because I have to, and I’ll use it for an opportunity for informed consent, and then urine drug test screen. Katie: Absolutely.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

And yet, I think for everyone who’s elderly, which is anyone who’s my age or older, I would say it’s very important and ought to be part of an annual exam that we ought to be asking that, and documenting it in the chart. I think Bob also noted documenting it. Eric: Anybody else’s thoughts on that?

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MARCH 20, 2025

But at the same time, we’re saving a lot of moral distress of the long term care staff in terms of having to bear watching people not have thirst needs addressed. Who do you give informed consent to? And so I think of it as more like the patient who’s on document dialysis, who.

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