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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. Once you have created your living will, it is important to keep it up to date.

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An Introduction to Advance Directives

Traditions Health

An Introduction to Advance Directives When someone reaches the end of their life, illness or aging may make it difficult to communicate with family and healthcare providers. The term advance directive is also at times referred to as a living will as it varies from state to state. If you want your organs to be donated.

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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.