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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. Yael 10:34 More like a living will kind of a thing. This is Eric Widera. Joe 01:59 Ann Arbor.

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

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Susan Hickman, who is professor at the Indiana University schools of nursing and medicine, and is director of the IU Center for Aging Research at the Regenstrief Institute. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. What is advanced?