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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

Yael 10:34 More like a living will kind of a thing. Do they have a health care decision maker? Do they have a health care proxy? They have an advanced directive that specifies the type of they would care they would like to receive in a very specific situation, but not the situation at hand. Or do you dive deeper?

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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.