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I think therefore I am? – Blah Blah Blah

Palliverse

How a person lives in their final days needs to be considered. All of us who are born and live will one day die. People with life-limiting illnesses will live for much shorter periods than most people of similar ages. How can we shape the last thousand days of New Zealanders’ lives? Exactly when we do not know.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago. Julien: When I closed my eyes, I actually thought this is an actual recording of Chris Cornell. It was amazing. It was really, really crazy.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

There is a lively debate going on in academic circles about the value of Advance Care Planning (ACP). And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. Summary Transcript Summary. Juliet: Thank you.

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