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. ICU care was pretty rudimentary. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose.

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Document Feeding Resuscitation Article 195

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. You work with who’s there and they, they deliver care. It happens in the course of routine care. They need, they need some, a little bit of information and probably a little more than that, what we like to call an edge.

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Palliative care Palliate Geriatrics Definition 187

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. So a lot of the skills that are used in advance care planning are the same kind of skills you would use in a context where you were communicating information or prognosis or doing an informed consent discussion.

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Palliative care Geriatrics Palliate Document 144