Who Speaks for You?
Most of us have some sense of what we'd want if we ever couldn't speak for ourselves. Few of us have ever been given a good way to say it to the people who would be asked. Dr. Brian Carpenter studies what happens in that gap, and how families and doctors can close it.
Brian is a clinical geropsychologist at Washington University in St. Louis and co-director of the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging. His research looks at how families talk about care decisions, how well the people closest to us actually understand our wishes, and how simple tools can help patients get more out of their time…
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