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

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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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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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Eric: Initially it started with living wills back in the early-1970s development of durable-powered attorneys for healthcare. People would present with horrible opportunistic infections, not just pneumocystis pneumonia, but CNS infections with toxoplasmosis and wasting syndrome, of course. And we see that too in geriatrics.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

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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. But when you’re asking someone to make a decision about code status, you’re asking them to make a decision that is in effect right now in the present, right?

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Books on Becoming A Better Mentor (and Better Person): Bob Arnold

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It helped me to understand and justify my interest in (this won’t surprise you) EVERYTHING related to geriatrics or palliative care. Really talking about, Bob did a talk that I was not present at what meeting Alex? That happened to me when reading “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.”

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

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But one of the things that I try to teach, because both Juliet and I have done a ton of teaching about this, is that if you follow these steps, that outcome sort of presents itself. appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Get the hospice referral. Oftentimes, not always.

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