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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012. Well, I’d agree, John, for palliative care ideally starts around the time of diagnosis. Alex: That is not around the time of diagnosis. Jane: We’re following behind the birth doula movement. Jane: Right. Alex: Yeah.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

And she was from Oregon, of course, and in Oregon in 2012, she had completed an advanced directive for stopping eating and drinking once she had advanced dementia. Just got the diagnosis based on blood tests of amyloid. Then just got the diagnosis. And I knew it was a matter of time before this came along. What about stage four?

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