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POA: Understanding the Need for Essential Documents

Traditions Health

A healthcare POA lets you appoint someone to make health-related decisions for you. The person you choose is often referred to as a healthcare proxy. You also should make copies of the document to share with your agent, attorney, healthcare provider, and any loved ones who may need it.

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Essential Questions to Discuss with Aging Parents for Future Planning

Home With Help

Are they open to hospice care? Do they have a living will or an advance healthcare directive in place? Its critical to know if your parents have legal documents such as a will, power of attorney, and healthcare proxy. Health is often the biggest concern as parents age. Would they want to be resuscitated?

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Advance Care Planning: How to Start

Hospice Promise

Start the Conversation: Talk to your loved ones and healthcare providers about your healthcare wishes and values. Choose a Healthcare Proxy: Identify a trusted person who can make healthcare decisions for you if you’re unable to do so. This will help ensure they understand what matters most to you.

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An Introduction to Advance Directives

Traditions Health

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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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

They got a decision support tool that identified hospice patients or those who might benefit from a goals of care discussion. hospice use). But what we don’t know is are they already on hospice? Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy?

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

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. Eric 34:23 Yeah, I just learned challenges of when discharging people to hospice on.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

Eric: So Susan, you have touched so many people in the field of hospice palliative medicine. And part of that job, they were looking for somebody to be a medical person in the local hospice. Was before the Medicare hospice benefit. And one was the Medicare hospice benefit. I’ll try to keep it a little shorter here.