GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Yael 10:34 More like a living will kind of a thing. Do they have a health care proxy? 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.

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Healthcare proxy Ventilator Social worker Geriatrics 228

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. When creating a living will, it is important to be as specific as possible about your wishes. Once you have created your living will, it is important to keep it up to date.

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End-of-life care Healthcare proxy Resuscitation Document 52

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. Eric: Initially it started with living wills back in the early-1970s development of durable-powered attorneys for healthcare.

Document 233

Document Feeding Resuscitation Article 233

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right? They said durable power of attorney for healthcare, like assigning a healthcare proxy.

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Palliative care Geriatrics Palliate Document 154