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.
Traditions Health
APRIL 15, 2024
There are also power of attorney (POA) documents, which give legal permission for someone to act on your behalf, ensuring you have a trusted person to make decisions for you when you’re not able to make them yourself. A healthcare POA lets you appoint someone to make health-related decisions for you. What is a power of attorney?
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GeriPal
JANUARY 16, 2025
So like as an example, in New York State, if someone has no healthcare proxy that they’ve designated, there is a legal structure by which we can assign a surrogate, whereas other states don’t have that same structure. Yael 10:52 Yeah. And I think that’s where there’s so much state by state variability.
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
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.
American In-Home Care
MARCH 15, 2024
Understanding Advance Healthcare Directives Advance healthcare directives are legal documents that outline your healthcare preferences and medical treatment instructions in case you cannot communicate your wishes. These directives typically include two main components: a living will and a healthcare power of attorney.
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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