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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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In 1988, Cruzan’s parents requested that her feeding tube be removed, arguing that she would not want to continue in this state. On the one hand, this was unfortunate, as it meant Nancy Cruzan could not be disconnected from the feeding tube immediately. In 1990 the Supreme Court ruled…for the state of Missouri.

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

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

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Caregiving Best Practices: Get Healthcare, Financial, and Legal Affairs in Order

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Advance Healthcare Directives (also known as advance directives, living wills, or durable power of attorney for healthcare) are legal documents that specify your preferences for medical treatment and designate a healthcare proxy (also known as agent or surrogate) should you no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacitation.

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Caregiver Mistakes: Not Having Healthcare, Financial, and Legal Affairs in Order

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Advance Healthcare Directives (also known as advance directives, living wills, or durable power of attorney for healthcare) are legal documents that specify your preferences for medical treatment and designate a healthcare proxy (also known as agent or surrogate) should you no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacitation.

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Top Family Caregiver Mistakes:  Part 1.5; Not having healthcare, financial, and legal affairs in order

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also known as advance directives, living wills, or durable power of attorney for healthcare) are legal documents that specify your preferences for medical treatment and designate a healthcare proxy (also known as agent or surrogate) should you no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacitation. Advance healthcare directives.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

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There is a lively debate going on in academic circles about the value of Advance Care Planning (ACP). Summary Transcript Summary. It’s not a new debate but has gathered steam at least in palliative care circles since Sean Morrisons published a JPM article titled “ Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong.” Juliet: Thank you.

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

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He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago. That will be the last one in his life. Don’t thicken it, make sure he gets what he wants. Don’t ask anybody. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.