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Can I Include End of Life Care Wishes in My Will?

Seasons Hospice

You may also want to designate a healthcare proxy, who will be responsible for making sure your wishes are carried out. Five wishes are similar to living wills in that they express an individual’s preferences for end-of-life care. Any other wishes you have for end-of-life care.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

There was a little bit of teaching about end of life care. And for example, there’s still in most medical schools no required rotation in palliative care. I think there’s data that shows that there have been improvements in end of life care. And there was some teaching about pain.

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

GeriPal

I feel like we talked about this before, so I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but I maybe will sound like a broken record to get back to what is the definition of advance care planning? I think I’m heartened by the fact that over the last decade or so, the definition of advance care planning has evolved.