GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

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. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right?

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Geriatrics Palliative care Palliate Document 146

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

I once had a patient in the ICU at Moffitt who had had a stroke and was facing, not recovered, going to a nursing home with a feeding tube. Eric: Initially it started with living wills back in the early-1970s development of durable-powered attorneys for healthcare. They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much.

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Document Feeding Resuscitation Article 210

GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In that, again this is GeriPal Podcast, geriatrics falls into the same boat. There are 86-year-olds living in a nursing home with frailty, who I say, “I’m a geriatrician.” Tony: And don’t call it a living will because wills are about dying. ” “Oh, yeah. That’s great.

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Palliative care Palliate Hospice Geriatrics 206

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.

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Geriatrics Ventilator Events Palliative care 191