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5-Step Guide to Developing a Long-Term Care Plan

Accessible Home Health Care

It also comes with challenges that sometimes mean that the seniors in our lives need long-term care for their overall health and wellness. However, inviting an at-home caregiver into your family members life isnt the only serious consideration when developing a long-term care plan for your senior loved one.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

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. I think it’s kind of multilayered and I think that one area in particular to intervene is patients going into long term care. Yael 10:52 Yeah.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

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. It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

I think for a person in long-term care who has mild to moderate dementia, a POLST is part of the care plan because these are decisions that are likely to need to be made in the setting of the current illness. ” And this is late in the year, geriatrics and palliative care fellow said POLST.