Remove Geriatrics Remove Informed consent Remove Patient care
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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

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

GeriPal

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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