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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. We’re very fortunate to have Medicare chronic care management, which is a wonderful resource that really is very goal driven, incorporating things like patient priorities, care and what matters most.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

People diagnosed in the past 12 months, for example, so our… I think this was published in JAMA Oncology because it’s novel and we don’t have a lot of information about prevalence, but our estimates weren’t particularly precise because of our small sample sizes. Katie: Absolutely. Katie: Yep.