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

GeriPal

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. Yael 44:20 I would say for AGS 2025, because I’m going to be giving a presentation with a colleague about that specific issue.

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

GeriPal

But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right? And it I think really highlights how that’s a very blurry line.