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APRIL 1, 2025

Its critical to know if your parents have legal documents such as a will, power of attorney, and healthcare proxy. Also, discuss their financial situation not to pry, but to be informed. Do they have long-term care insurance? These documents protect their rights and ensure their decisions are honored.

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Healthcare proxy Resuscitation Document End-of-life care 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. They have an advanced directive that specifies the type of they would care they would like to receive in a very specific situation, but not the situation at hand. This is Eric Widera. Yael 10:52 Yeah.

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Healthcare proxy Social worker Ventilator Geriatrics 258

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s President of National POLST and recent past president of AMDA, the Long-Term Care Association. So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information. Welcome, Karl.

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Document Nursing home Healthcare proxy Ventilator 309

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. They said durable power of attorney for healthcare, like assigning a healthcare proxy.

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Palliative care Geriatrics Palliate Document 173