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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

Was before the Medicare hospice benefit. And one was the Medicare hospice benefit. I think we shouldn’t be doing advanced care planning before somebody has a serious illness or something that’s likely to end their lives, beyond having a healthcare proxy. It was really ancient times in our field. Susan: Yes.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

It’s not the tool itself, it’s that doctors are handing out POLSTs to people at they’re welcome to Medicare or annual wellness exams. It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section. Kelly: Yeah, no, definitely. People who just want to default treatment. Abby: Yeah.

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