Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If you have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and are receiving hospice care, you may want to consider creating a living will. When creating a living will, it is important to be as specific as possible about your wishes. Once you have created your living will, it is important to keep it up to date.

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Hope Hospice

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Some people already have established a living will and/or power of attorney for healthcare, or a POLST Form (Physician Order for Life Sustaining Treatment) that record in advance your choices regarding medical life support and identify your representative for medical decisions in the event you become unable to communicate. Group education.

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Hospice Advantage Solutions

MARCH 25, 2016

Health Care Proxy, Durable power of attorney for healthcare, Living will, and. The use of these codes requires a face-to-face visit, however, the patient may not be present. Examples of Advance Directives. Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment/Out of Hospital DNR.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

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. And so the key there is, of course these were prospectively measured where patients were called every month from 1998 through actually the present day among those who are still alive.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Eric: Initially it started with living wills back in the early-1970s development of durable-powered attorneys for healthcare. People would present with horrible opportunistic infections, not just pneumocystis pneumonia, but CNS infections with toxoplasmosis and wasting syndrome, of course. Bernie: And so Alex, it was horrible.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Really talking about, Bob did a talk that I was not present at what meeting Alex? Or collaborative revising where they’ll send me a draft and then I’ll read over it but then live will work through changes and have some back and forth rather than I may email, you email me, I email you. It’s more of a conversation.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right? And it I think really highlights how that’s a very blurry line.

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