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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. It doesn’t provide enough guidance for the clinicians to make decisions.

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

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Elizabeth Eckstrom is a geriatrician, professor of medicine at OHSU, and author of a new book, the Gift of Aging. That’s Oregon Health Sciences University, and whose new book is T he G ift of Aging. Eric 08:13 And Elizabeth, you just read a book. What was the title of the book again? AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

Have been now a care provider for people with HIV for over 40 years. And I became more and more involved in it, including becoming involved in research and developing some of the programs initially to provide care for people with both drug use and HIV related problems, women with HIV vulnerable populations.