Geriatrics Information Living will Palliate 
GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Eric: Initially it started with living wills back in the early-1970s development of durable-powered attorneys for healthcare.
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2022
Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. Susan: Thanks so much, Alex. Welcome back, Bob.
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GeriPal
MARCH 3, 2022
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. I’m going to turn to you Lauren. Don’t ask anybody.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. So what do we do about it? What’s wrong with the “pictures of hands clasping each other” as our palliative care meme?
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
There is a lively debate going on in academic circles about the value of Advance Care Planning (ACP). And that kind of prognostic information can be just as valuable, really, to patients and their families planning as time-based information. Summary Transcript Summary. Delighted to have you on our podcast. Juliet: Thank you.
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