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

Hospice News

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

Similarly, individuals with multiple chronic conditions that require ongoing management may need to remain in palliative care for longer periods than those who do not have any other health issues. In some cases, the advance directive will indicate that palliative care should be used without limitation until death occurs.

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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

GeriPal

And when I think about advance care planning too, it all goes back to like meaning making, like who is this person? What’s important to them in their quality of life? I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation. Who are they? Eric: I guess probably the combo of both.