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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

They’re going to have a fall because they were hypotensive from a med, or nobody paid attention to the fact that they weren’t coordinating very well. So there are some studies going on in that direction as well. And either of those could be given to the patient or an informant. Also common in dementia.

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

GeriPal

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. And that can really inform what your own institutional policy is. This is Eric Widera. Alex 01:24 This is Alex Smith. But we always talk about capacity being decision specific. Eric 20:31 Yeah.