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Done Right, Advance Care Planning Can Reduce High-Acuity Utilization

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It requires careful communication designed to identify what is most important to patients. While advance care planning is associated with end-of-life care, the process is also a frequent component of palliative care programs, which are oriented around patients’ own goals and wishes at any stage of their illnesses.

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How Long Can You Be in Palliative Care?

Seasons Hospice

Is There A Length Of Time For Palliative Care? Palliative care is a type of medical care that focuses on providing relief from the symptoms, stress, and pain of serious illnesses. It helps individuals live as comfortably as possible during their illness by managing physical, emotional, spiritual, and practical aspects of care.

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An Introduction to Advance Directives

Traditions Health

The term advance directive is also at times referred to as a living will as it varies from state to state. 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.

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

GeriPal

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. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient.

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

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Alex: And we have returning, Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor at the University of Pittsburgh. Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. What’s important to them in their quality of life?