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

GeriPal

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

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

GeriPal

And when she was here, she co founded the Golden Compass Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital for older adults living with HIV. Eric 26:39 But I’m also hearing that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed cases are not those individuals. I couldnt help it, forgive me dear listeners, I had to do a longer than usual cut at the start!

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

Gaunt and feverish, he went to the hospital and learned he had AIDS. His mother slept at his hospital bedside for two weeks: “She said, ‘God got you.’” . “I thought my family was going to disown me,” he said. A year later, his weight plummeted because he couldn’t hold down food or water.