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

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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. I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation.