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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

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The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. We owe it to the patient to explore the reasons behind the “no,” commonly not wanting to be a burden to their family. Should you stop at “no?” AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Group ACP and Equity: Sarah Nouri, Hillary Lum, LJ Van Scoy

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It does seem that if communities, particularly historically marginalized communities, are interested in ACP, that fact should carry some weight in how resources are allocated to research and health care financing. Complicated grief? And that family was not necessarily a trusted network. Did they have PTSD? Depression?

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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How is it financed and what comes next? The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. I think Bruce can speak to that, I think, 30-year gap in finances. Yeah, Eric: Yeah.

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