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Hospice Does Not Require a DNR

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Here we explore this choice and how it affects hospice care. This document is usually for people in their last months of life. It’s more helpful in emergency situations than the living will , because it results in a yellow and red piece of paper with standard formatting. 2018 Mar 1;21(3):297-301. What is a DNR?

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

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Links to a few couple items mentioned on the podcast: Objectives for Advance Care Planning. 2018 Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on ACP. Susan: I will share in Indiana, we actually had that as our legal model, that there was a decision making by committee up until 2018. Alex: What did it changed to after 2018?

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

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I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago. It was amazing. It was really, really crazy.