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Upcoming Webinars
New Developments: Advance Care Planning in the Context of COVID-19 (GSA Annual Scientific Meeting iSession Series)
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Noon to 1 p.m. ET
See registration instructions above
Free for Members; $25 Registration for Non-Members
This GSA Annual Scientific Meeting iSession Series provides participants with a forum for conversation on findings, limitations, and future work opportunities around a topic. Continuing from an interdisciplinary symposium presentation about advance care planning in the context of COVID-19, this second iSession explores how diverse insights into advance care planning are shifting in a post-pandemic world.
Supplemental Materials:
- GSA Annual Scientific Meeting Interdisciplinary Symposia Presentations
- Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Increased Advance Care Planning Discussions Held by Older Adults?: Slides (PDF format) | Audio (MP3 format)
- When the Professional Turns Personal: Healthcare Providers and Their Own Advance Care Planning During the Pandemic: Slides (PDF format) | Audio (MP3 format)
- COVID-19 and Death Anxiety: The Impact on Students’ Appraisals to Completing Advance Directives: Slides (PDF format) | Audio (MP3 format)
- Advance Care Planning in the Time of COVID: Real-World Case Discussions: Slides (PDF format) | Audio (MP3 format)
- The Hastings Center—Bioethics Forum Essay: “The Death of Advance Care Planning Is Greatly Exaggerated”
- JAMA article: “Three Stories About the Value of Advance Care Planning”
- JAMA article: “What’s Wrong With Advance Care Planning?”
- Other Publications on the Subject Matter
- American Journal of Epidemiology article: “Explaining Ethnic Differentials in COVID-19 Mortality: A Cohort Study”
- JMIR Public Health and Surveillance article: “Factors Associated With COVID-19 Death in the United States: Cohort Study”
- European Geriatric Medicine article: “Older Adults Report Cancellation or Avoidance of Medical Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results From the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam”
Presenters:
- Brian Carpenter, PhD, FGSA, Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis Saint Louis (Chair)
- Brian De Vries, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Gerontology, San Francisco State University
- Debra Dobbs, PhD, FGSA, Associate Professor, School of Aging Studies, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences, University of South Florida
- Gloria Gutman, PhD, FGSA, FCAHS, Professor Emerita of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University Vancouver
- Erica Frechman, PhD, AGPCNP-BC, ACHPN, NEA-BC, FPCN, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Section on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
- Carlyn Vogel, PhD candidate, Instructor, School of Aging Studies, University of South Florida
- Panayiotis Tsitouras, MD, FGSA, FAAA, Associate Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Health Sciences Center, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma (Moderator)
