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.
GeriPal
JANUARY 16, 2025
So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. And that can really inform what your own institutional policy is. This is Eric Widera. Alex 01:24 This is Alex Smith. But we always talk about capacity being decision specific. Yael 10:52 Yeah.
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GeriPal
AUGUST 11, 2022
We didn’t really have any available information about changing from one opioid to the other, about… Medicines were used in a very unsophisticated way because we just didn’t know any stuff. And so people were just doing whatever they wanted, whatever moved them to do. She’s so responsive.” Susan: Yeah.
American In-Home Care
MARCH 15, 2024
Essentially, it provides guidance to healthcare providers and loved ones about your desired level of care. Healthcare Power of Attorney: This document appoints a trusted individual, known as a healthcare proxy or agent, to make healthcare decisions on your behalf if you're incapacitated.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 19, 2023
So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information. 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.
GeriPal
JULY 11, 2024
It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And so I was driven by the fact that I needed more information, and so it sort of became my clinical focus as well as I dabble in the research. We have both inpatient and outpatient at IU.
GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Other states set lower bars, including oral assignment of surrogate decision-makers. Bernie: Laurie, can I interject here?
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