Last month, we spotlighted the August 27th episode of the GeriPal podcast with Sean Morrison, MD, Director of the National Palliative Care Research Center and Chair of the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai and former President of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, in which he posited that advance care planning is “clear, simple, and wrong.”
This month, the GeriPal podcast talked with Rebecca Sudore, MD, Professor of Medicine, Geriatrics Division, University of California, San Francisco and creator of Prepare for Your Care, and Ryan McMahan, MD, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, about how advance care planning is “right.”
In the conversation, Drs. Sudore and McMahan emphasize the ability of advance care planning to help surrogates prepare for in-the-moment healthcare decision making. They conducted a scoping review, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, of high-quality trials conducted over the last 10 years that demonstrate the benefits of ACP and the necessity of using a broader, more nuanced definition of advance care planning.
We encourage you to listen and learn more about the complexities of ACP.
