Louise Aronson
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1,082 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2019
last heard Jul 2024
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And, you know, all of us at the Senior Hub were like, oh no, don't do it.
You know, like, yes, it's true.
And everybody needs to wear a mask.
Yeah.
So, you know, and again, that was well-meaning and not untrue.
And the problem is we really have trouble as individuals and as a society with complexity, right?
So it can be true that it probably does make more sense to do advanced care planning if you're over 80 in the age of COVID.
And we shouldn't like write you off entirely.
I mean, there have been some pretty good studies.
There's that European collaborative, the article in The Lancet about frailty.
And it was very clear that it had much more to do with frailty than with age.
And a lot of older people are pushing back on this.
There was an article in the Washington Post recently about somebody who was, by somebody who was 62, talking to other people in their early 60s.
And they're like, hey, we just found out we're old.
You know?
But is our risk the same as the risk as the person who's bed bound in a nursing home and 98 and has advanced dementia?
They're thinking not, and I'm thinking they're right.
So there's a way in which we don't really discuss the gradations.
And maybe is it that it should be universal or that it should be universal for anybody in any of the higher risk groups?
At the same time, I have a lot of patients, and I know a lot of people who are, some of them over 75, certainly anybody over 85, who says, look, if I need a ventilator, forget it.
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