GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

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

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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. They said durable power of attorney for healthcare, like assigning a healthcare proxy. That’s not unique to POLST as an order.

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