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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. This document can specify your end-of-life wishes in the event that you become unable to make decisions for yourself. Any other wishes you have for end-of-life care.

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An Introduction to Advance Directives

Traditions Health

An Overview of Advance Directives An advance directive includes the end-of-life information you want your family and healthcare providers to know about your healthcare decisions if you become unable to communicate those choices. Spend time thinking about which care alternative works best for you.

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

When it comes to providing palliative care for a child, the health care team will need details about your child and your family in order to provide the best possible support for all of you during this difficult time. What the palliative care team needs to know. Family involvement in end-of-life care for a child.

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

When it comes to providing palliative care for a child, the health care team will need details about your child and your family in order to provide the best possible support for all of you during this difficult time. What the palliative care team needs to know. Family involvement in end-of-life care for a child.

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

When it comes to providing palliative care for a child, the health care team will need details about your child and your family in order to provide the best possible support for all of you during this difficult time. What the palliative care team needs to know. Family involvement in end-of-life care for a child.

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

GeriPal

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty.