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

GeriPal

I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. I saw years ago in Oregon, a POLST form that had been on file in a nursing home resident’s chart for seven years. I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

But definitely always had the bug to be the one to jump into the family meetings in the ICU, lead them. You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. Alex: So the proven trial was that the video in the nursing homes? Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes. Kate: Yeah.