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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.

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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.

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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. Welcome back, Rebecca.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

So maybe not where I’m worried that you have months to a year to live, but I’m worried that you’re not going to be able to function as well, that you’re going to need someone to live with you, that you’ll need help going to the bathroom. Those kinds of things. Get the hospice referral. Eric: Yeah.

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