GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. In 1990 the Supreme Court ruled…for the state of Missouri.

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Feeding Document Resuscitation Article 198

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Starting bar TBD, look for the GeriPal post, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** Today we celebrate eight years, around 2 million listens, and 300 podcasts! So, we’ve talked about what our wishes are, she is my default surrogate. I actually wrote a blog post about this when we were a blog.

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Geriatrics Palliative care Palliate Blog 240

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! People who just want to default treatment. I think as a tool for communication, in that lies its greatest value. This is Eric Widera.

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Document Nursing home Healthcare proxy Ventilator 269

GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

” So feeding them little soundbites that they might be able to take off the tip sheet and use if they had the opportunity. Kevin: So juxtapose everything that was just discussed in terms of highly purposeful, well-thought experiments and qualitative research to try to understand how to communicate things. Kevin: Thank you.

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Nursing home Presentation Article Nursing 205