GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So we thought that really coalescing around this term, which is still difficult because sometimes you think of unrepresented is politically unrepresented or it is a challenging definition with three parts to it that’s really hard to capture with any one term. Eric 09:14 And how would you define unrepresented?

Healthcare proxy 258

Healthcare proxy Social worker Ventilator Geriatrics 258

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s President of National POLST and recent past president of AMDA, the Long-Term Care Association. It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section.

Document 309

Document Nursing home Healthcare proxy Ventilator 309

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

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. They said durable power of attorney for healthcare, like assigning a healthcare proxy.

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Palliative care Geriatrics Palliate Document 173