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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

As the parent of an ill child, you are in the best position to orient your child’s health care team to his or her preferences, needs and goals. By sharing information surrounding end-of-life care, it will help build a collective understanding and establish great communication. What the palliative care team needs to know.

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

As the parent of an ill child, you are in the best position to orient your child’s health care team to his or her preferences, needs and goals. By sharing information surrounding end-of-life care, it will help build a collective understanding and establish great communication. What the palliative care team needs to know.

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

As the parent of an ill child, you are in the best position to orient your child’s health care team to his or her preferences, needs and goals. By sharing information surrounding end-of-life care, it will help build a collective understanding and establish great communication. What the palliative care team needs to know.

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Jacky Kruser, who’s a pulmonary critical care doctor and health services researcher at the University of Wisconsin. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor, VitalTalk co-founder. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jacky: Thank you.

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An Introduction to Advance Directives

Traditions Health

This healthcare proxy should be someone you trust to make decisions for you, in the event you are unable to do so. As the disease progresses, you may begin thinking more about Do-Not-Resuscitate orders and mechanical ventilation. This can be any person you choose, including a family member or a close friend.

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

GeriPal

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty. Don’t ask anybody.