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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. What Items Should Be Present In Your Living Will?

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High Peaks Hospice Observes National Healthcare Decisions Day By Sharing the FIVE WISHES.

High Peaks Hospice

A living will is an advance directive that speaks to what care you want or do not want (i.e. no feeding tube, but open to antibiotics) and your Health Care Proxy names the person who will follow those wishes and make decisions. appeared first on High Peaks Hospice and Palliative Care.

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High Peaks Hospice Shares FIVE WISHES

High Peaks Hospice

A living will is an advance directive that speaks to what care you want or do not want (i.e. no feeding tube, but open to antibiotics) and your Health Care Proxy names the person who will follow those wishes and make decisions. Physical copies are available upon request.

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

GeriPal

Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. ” And that has 34,000 likes, which for a palliative care tweet is beyond what other tweets have achieved. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. It won’t take long, go get it by yourself.” Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.