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

Seasons Hospice

If you have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and are receiving hospice care, you may want to consider creating a living will. When creating a living will, it is important to be as specific as possible about your wishes. Once you have created your living will, it is important to keep it up to date.

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Advance Care Planning and Hospice

Hospice Advantage Solutions

CPT Manual Definition of Advanced Directives. “A Health Care Proxy, Durable power of attorney for healthcare, Living will, and. These rates do not take into the consideration the two percent reduction to Medicare’s share of the payment due to sequestration. Examples of Advance Directives.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

Most of the debate seems rather wonky, as honestly it feels like we are getting stuck in the weeds of semantics and definitions, like what counts as ACP versus in the moment decisions. Rachelle: One of the things, they are definitely ordered steps, right? What are your values? I’m healthy.” So you need to do them in order.

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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.

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

GeriPal

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. And I thought that was pretty striking. Eric: Yeah. Why do you think that is?

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Books on Becoming A Better Mentor (and Better Person): Bob Arnold

GeriPal

Of course, she’s not advocating for a George Santos approach (no lying) but just having a little bit more of a mindset that you’ll figure it out once you’re on the job. I’d definitely recommend this book if you’ve ever struggled with similar feelings or mentor people who might. It’s more of a conversation.

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