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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Even if you haven’t completed a healthcare proxy, durable training for healthcare, most states say here’s a list of people who can make that decision in order. They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much. And we see that too in geriatrics. Alex and Eric, both of you attend in geriatrics.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

Eric: So Susan, you have touched so many people in the field of hospice palliative medicine. And part of that job, they were looking for somebody to be a medical person in the local hospice. Was before the Medicare hospice benefit. And one was the Medicare hospice benefit. I’ll try to keep it a little shorter here.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section. Because POLST doesn’t, I believe, correct me if I’m wrong, you can’t assign a durable power of attorney for healthcare or healthcare proxy. Welcome, Abby.

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