GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.”

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But the process of implementing this project across two big health systems in our area was very complicated and had its share of both challenges and rewards. Ideally the conversation would happen before, but also clinicians were able to make referrals to facilitators. Why did you even bother doing this study?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. Get the hospice referral.

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