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. What Items Should Be Present In Your Living Will?

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

It requires careful communication designed to identify what is most important to patients. While advance care planning is associated with end-of-life care, the process is also a frequent component of palliative care programs, which are oriented around patients’ own goals and wishes at any stage of their illnesses.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 26, 2023

Similarly, individuals with multiple chronic conditions that require ongoing management may need to remain in palliative care for longer periods than those who do not have any other health issues. In some cases, the advance directive will indicate that palliative care should be used without limitation until death occurs.

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Traditions Health

APRIL 16, 2023

The term advance directive is also at times referred to as a living will as it varies from state to state. An Overview of Advance Directives An advance directive includes the end-of-life information you want your family and healthcare providers to know about your healthcare decisions if you become unable to communicate those choices.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

And when I think about advance care planning too, it all goes back to like meaning making, like who is this person? What’s important to them in their quality of life? I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation. Who are they? Eric: I guess probably the combo of both.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient.

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