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. Let’s say they’re in the ICU now on a ventilator. Eric 27:31 They are unrepresented, they’re in the ICU on a ventilator. Yael 10:52 Yeah.

Healthcare proxy 242

Healthcare proxy Social worker Ventilator Geriatrics 242

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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Document Nursing home Healthcare proxy Ventilator 305

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

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. I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation.

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Palliative care Geriatrics Palliate Document 162