Document Geriatrics Healthcare proxy 
GeriPal
JANUARY 16, 2025
Alex 01:27 We’re delighted to welcome back Tim F a rrell, who’s a geriatrician, associate chief for Age Friendly care at the University of Utah and chair of the American Geriatric Society Ethics Committee. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Tim, welcome back to GeriPal.
GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
Missouri set a very high bar, explicit written documentation that applies to this specific circumstance, which the Cruzan’s eventually cleared. But legislation can change, clinical practice can change, but I think what we’ll talk about today is how we’re now opening the door to conversations rather than legal rules and documents.
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GeriPal
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. Because we haven’t done our job to document the value of what we’re doing. And I use that as that documentation about what they want, recognizing that not everybody does that.
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2022
Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. I think Bob also noted documenting it. I don’t know.
GeriPal
JULY 11, 2024
And I document those differently in my notes, and we have a goals of care template within our EMR that then I’ll document if transplants off the table, these are their wishes, and so I sort of have a contingency plan, but at minimum, everybody, everybody needs a healthcare representative who knows the patient’s wishes.
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