GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Eric 01:13 Yeah, you got to jump in. Take it over.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. I have to do them where I work, but I use them as an opportunity for informed consent.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

But I do think that there’s a tension here, which is that in order for these algorithms to work, you need to feed them a ton of data. And then you think, well, what kind of data are you feeding it? Jenny 27:44 I mean, it’s that, yes, it is better than a coin flip. That’s what these algorithms need.

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