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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. This is Eric Widera.

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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. So I think that really questioning what we do is a good thing that routes to improved patient care. So I got the white board and I wrote advance care planning.

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

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

GeriPal

Who do you give informed consent to? I don’t ask any of my patients whether or not they have capacity to make a decision about eating or drinking. And it just reminds me when we’re thinking about, especially with stopping eating and drinking with advanced dementia due to advanced directive or these Ulysses contracts.

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

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I mean, I just think about the patients with, you know, severe mental health disorders who are, you know, don’t make decisions not to see a healthcare provider based on like informed consent, but because that they have a significant mental health issue that is interfering with their decision making capacity.

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