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 I Just Received a Dementia Diagnosis—What Do I Do Next?

Hope Hospice

Ensure you record your choices about how you want to be cared for in your final days and following death, such as whether you prefer cremation or burial. Hope Hospice recommends the Five Wishes document, which is a comprehensive living will that addresses your personal and medical care choices. Make a Care Plan.

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

GeriPal

I think for a person in long-term care who has mild to moderate dementia, a POLST is part of the care plan because these are decisions that are likely to need to be made in the setting of the current illness. So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right? Sean: I did, I did.