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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 19:06 Yeah, I mean, I just was kind of smiling as the two of you were talking about your social worker that, you know, can help find people.

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

GeriPal

So a lot of the skills that are used in advance care planning are the same kind of skills you would use in a context where you were communicating information or prognosis or doing an informed consent discussion. So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right? Hopefully that answers your question.