Elder Care Matters
MARCH 24, 2025
Advance directives, including living wills and healthcare proxies, are essential for seniors to ensure their healthcare preferences are respected if they become incapacitated. Learn why these documents are crucial and how to create them in this informative article.
Elder Care Matters
MARCH 24, 2025
Advance directives, including living wills and healthcare proxies, are essential for seniors to ensure their healthcare preferences are respected if they become incapacitated. Learn why these documents are crucial and how to create them in this informative article.
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Elder Care Matters
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
This article explores essential steps for navigating end-of-life decisions with dignity. Estate planning involves more than just managing assets; it includes discussing end-of-life care preferences. Ensuring that seniors' wishes regarding medical treatments and quality of life are respected and honored is a crucial part of this process.
GeriPal
JANUARY 16, 2025
I, for example, had one patient, I remember during my fellowship, I was in geriatrics clinic and had a very well read patient who came in and was reading a New York Times article, I think in the well section at one point. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Yael 10:52 Yeah.
GeriPal
APRIL 10, 2025
Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? I mean, those articles didn’t get published in jama, so in journals, but we had qualitative. Eric 26:01 Curtis’s, he had a 2014 JAMA article on simulation. That’s not news to us. No difference.
GeriPal
AUGUST 11, 2022
There was a Stanford article talking about you as a pioneer in this field. Several of your former PDIA, Project on Death in America, scholars banded together and published a very controversial article in JAMA as I’m sure you’re aware. My question is, what article are you most proud of? Susan: Thank you. Susan: Yeah.
GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles.
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