Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

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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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. And I thought that was pretty striking. Eric: Yeah. Why do you think that is?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. I think I’m heartened by the fact that over the last decade or so, the definition of advance care planning has evolved. Rebecca: Can I jump in.

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Palliative care Geriatrics Palliate Document 144