Home With Help

APRIL 1, 2025

Its critical to know if your parents have legal documents such as a will, power of attorney, and healthcare proxy. Understanding these wishes now prevents confusion later and allows you to advocate for their care with confidence. Do You Have Legal and Financial Documents in Order? Do they have long-term care insurance?

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Traditions Health

APRIL 16, 2023

This person will be allowed to make healthcare decisions for any treatments that you have not included on your advance directive if you are unable to make treatment decisions yourself. This healthcare proxy should be someone you trust to make decisions for you, in the event you are unable to do so.

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Accessible Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This is referred to as a healthcare proxy. At the end of the day, this is all about your older loved one’s healthcare. The way to be the best advocate for their healthcare is knowing what they would do if able to communicate.

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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.

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Elder Care Matters

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Estate planning involves more than just managing assets; it includes discussing end-of-life care preferences. Ensuring that seniors' wishes regarding medical treatments and quality of life are respected and honored is a crucial part of this process. This article explores essential steps for navigating end-of-life decisions with dignity.

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Elder Care Matters

AUGUST 16, 2024

Learn why advanced healthcare directives are essential for elder care. Ensure your healthcare preferences are honored and reduce family stress by including these directives in your estate planning.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

But that is a conversation where the caregiver slash healthcare proxy is involved, because that is the place these people can be completely lucid and have a full conversation with us and make us completely clear about what their wishes are. What the patient’s wishes are.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? That’s not news to us. But what we don’t know is are they already on hospice?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

I think we shouldn’t be doing advanced care planning before somebody has a serious illness or something that’s likely to end their lives, beyond having a healthcare proxy. I think that we have focused on completely the wrong desired outcomes for advanced care… Well, let me start all over on that one. Susan: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section. Because POLST doesn’t, I believe, correct me if I’m wrong, you can’t assign a durable power of attorney for healthcare or healthcare proxy. It would probably have maybe three sections. Karl: You can write it in.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

You may also want to designate a healthcare proxy, who will be responsible for making sure your wishes are carried out. This person is known as a healthcare proxy or durable power of attorney for healthcare. When creating a living will, it is important to be as specific as possible about your wishes.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Even if you haven’t completed a healthcare proxy, durable training for healthcare, most states say here’s a list of people who can make that decision in order. And the problem, it goes down in many states to close family members, any friend who knows the patient.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

They said durable power of attorney for healthcare, like assigning a healthcare proxy. ” And this is late in the year, geriatrics and palliative care fellow said POLST. They said advance directives. Their answers were forms.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Advance Healthcare Directives (also known as advance directives, living wills, or durable power of attorney for healthcare) are legal documents that specify your preferences for medical treatment and designate a healthcare proxy (also known as agent or surrogate) should you no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacitation.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Advance Healthcare Directives (also known as advance directives, living wills, or durable power of attorney for healthcare) are legal documents that specify your preferences for medical treatment and designate a healthcare proxy (also known as agent or surrogate) should you no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacitation.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

(also known as advance directives, living wills, or durable power of attorney for healthcare) are legal documents that specify your preferences for medical treatment and designate a healthcare proxy (also known as agent or surrogate) should you no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacitation.

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Seasons Hospice

APRIL 24, 2023

This means that even if the situation normally calls for it, healthcare providers will not use any aggressive measures such as chest compressions, defibrillation, or breathing tubes to revive the person. DNR orders can be written or verbal, and they are typically discussed and signed by a patient or their healthcare proxy.

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