GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. I think it’s kind of multilayered and I think that one area in particular to intervene is patients going into long term care. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Eric: Just for the aging population, what about long-term care? And so, I kind of partner with my patients and say… First of all, I use agreements. I have to do them where I work, but I use them as an opportunity for informed consent. I know many won’t take folks who have mobility problems.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

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 I think that really questioning what we do is a good thing that routes to improved patient care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

But at the same time, we’re saving a lot of moral distress of the long term care staff in terms of having to bear watching people not have thirst needs addressed. Who do you give informed consent to? It’s just not quite as quick or effective as they had desired in their advanced directive.

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