Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., This couple did not have advance healthcare directives nor were documents in place that would enable the wife to handle her husband’s independent financial accounts and property.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., This couple did not have advance healthcare directives nor were documents in place that would enable the wife to handle her husband’s independent financial accounts and property.

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Healthcare Caregiver Healthcare proxy Download 52

Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., This couple did not have advance healthcare directives nor were documents in place that would enable the wife to handle her husband’s independent financial accounts and property.

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Healthcare Caregiver Healthcare proxy Download 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Or is it the primary care document, who’s busy doing other things too, who probably won’t have the time to do a comprehensive geriatric assessment? How does the geriatric assessment lead to improved completion of advance directives, when the assessment doesn’t address advance care planning/directives at all? Precision medicine?

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ). Lexy: Great to be here.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

You’ve had three documented conversations to “clarify code status.” Alex: We are delighted to welcome Jacky Kruser, who’s a pulmonary critical care doctor and health services researcher at the University of Wisconsin. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jacky: Thank you. It’s a pleasure. Bob, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. Painstaking work to go through each outcome and really characterize and document what works and what doesn’t. Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. Because we haven’t done our job to document the value of what we’re doing. Welcome, Abby. Good to know.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 30, 2022

Recognizing abnormal observations: What your caregiver decides to document can prove to be detrimental to their protection, the client’s health and safety, and your agency’s liability. Take the guessing game out of client records by clarifying which types of information your caregivers are expected to document on each caregiver visit note.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Lauren: And then in the ED, you intubate and then you figure it out later or the patient never had an advanced care planning document and now the family’s making the decision and it’s really hard to watch your loved one die. That will be the last one in his life. Eric: Yeah.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 28, 2022

Encourage every caregiver to document personal details about each client in their care, such as how they like their eggs done, when they like to read their morning paper, how they like to spend their afternoon, and what types of tasks they expect to be done to guide any caregivers who may need to fill in while the assigned caregiver is unavailable.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Alex: But moving on from Jim Carrey and Dumb and Dumber, Samir, I wanted to ask you, someone once taught me, it’s possible it’s Joel, I’m not sure, someone once said that research is the meticulous documentation of the blatantly obvious. You’ll have a feeding tube. Alex: But I’m talking about-. Joel: Yeah.

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