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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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If they didn’t do it all by themselves, they talked to the family and it was a conversation, but also there wasn’t a whole lot that doctors can do then. And that changed in 1969 I think the first advanced directive was created by Luis Kutner. Bernie: Well, there was a time when doctors made these decisions.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

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Administration on Aging connecting you to services for older adults and their families California’s Master Plan for Aging New York’s Master Plan for Aging Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. This includes transportation, driver’s license, parks, volunteerism, housing, and of course health and human services.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. And they said, “This is really interesting, but all you’re really doing here is transferring the burden of care from hospital staff to family members.”

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