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

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Eric: Just for the aging population, what about long-term care? Eric: Who manages, once a day, methadone once they’re admitted to a nursing home? Katie: Well, I think you’re assuming that they’re accepting them to nursing homes, which is usually the first stop sign. Katie: Yep.

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

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And typically, in the education around facilitating those conversations, we’re focused on eliciting goals and what are that individual’s goals of care and how does that direct the plan right now, knowing that some of those decisions, even if you make a choice now aren’t actually going to come into play for days, weeks, months.