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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? Let them have this one piece of joy left, which is their opioid use disorder”, which, by definition, is not bringing them joy, right? I have to do them where I work, but I use them as an opportunity for informed consent. Katie: Absolutely.

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

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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. I don’t completely buy that there’s separate constructs altogether. Sean: I did, I did.