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

JANUARY 16, 2025

Yael 10:34 More like a living will kind of a thing. But like, if you look at a surrogate document, it walks you through step by step, the hierarchy of decision makers, but also, like, how that surrogate should be making decisions. Is the patient in your descriptor? Do they have a health care decision maker? Because if you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

And yet, I think for everyone who’s elderly, which is anyone who’s my age or older, I would say it’s very important and ought to be part of an annual exam that we ought to be asking that, and documenting it in the chart. I think Bob also noted documenting it. Eric: Anybody else’s thoughts on that?

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If you have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and are receiving hospice care, you may want to consider creating a living will. This document can specify your end-of-life wishes in the event that you become unable to make decisions for yourself. Once you have created your living will, it is important to keep it up to date.

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Hospice Advantage Solutions

MARCH 25, 2016

A document appointing an agent and/or recording the wishes of a patient pertaining to his/her medical treatment at a future time should he/she lack decisional capacity at that time.”. Health Care Proxy, Durable power of attorney for healthcare, Living will, and. Practitioners should document in detail all the services performed.

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Hope Hospice

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The Five Wishes document is a way for you to communicate your desires for how you want to be treated—medically, physically, and spiritually—if you get seriously ill and/or death is near. Five Wishes is a legal document for persons age 18 and older in California and 41 other states. How to obtain a Five Wishes document.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago. And so the key there is, of course these were prospectively measured where patients were called every month from 1998 through actually the present day among those who are still alive.

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