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

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s President of National POLST and recent past president of AMDA, the Long-Term Care Association. It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section.

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

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MARCH 24, 2022

I think for a person in long-term care who has mild to moderate dementia, a POLST is part of the care plan because these are decisions that are likely to need to be made in the setting of the current illness. They said durable power of attorney for healthcare, like assigning a healthcare proxy.

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