GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. Let’s say they’re in the ICU now on a ventilator. But they also did not do the DPOA for healthcare form. So there’s no healthcare surrogate. This is Eric Widera.

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Healthcare proxy Social worker Ventilator Geriatrics 275

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. And I wonder, because I read that need part a lot in this article.

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Informed consent Article Palliative care Resuscitation 341

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. Eric: Anybody else’s thoughts on that? I think Bob also noted documenting it. Rebecca: Agreed.

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Palliative care Geriatrics Palliate Document 189