Elder Care Matters

AUGUST 16, 2024

Learn why advanced healthcare directives are essential for elder care. Ensure your healthcare preferences are honored and reduce family stress by including these directives in your estate planning.

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Hospice Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Start the Conversation: Talk to your loved ones and healthcare providers about your healthcare wishes and values. Choose a Healthcare Proxy: Identify a trusted person who can make healthcare decisions for you if you’re unable to do so. How do you get started? You got this!

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Traditions Health

APRIL 16, 2023

An Introduction to Advance Directives When someone reaches the end of their life, illness or aging may make it difficult to communicate with family and healthcare providers. When creating your first advance directive, you can do the following: Ask your healthcare provider about all the end-of-life care alternatives available to you.

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Accessible Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Being an advocate for your senior’s healthcare needs means speaking up for them when times become difficult. Because this situation can become stressful and uncertain for all parties, we have curated an array of tips on how to best advocate for your senior’s healthcare needs. How to Be an Effective Healthcare Advocate.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

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. But they also did not do the DPOA for healthcare form. So there’s no healthcare surrogate.

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Elder Care Matters

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Estate planning involves more than just managing assets; it includes discussing end-of-life care preferences. Ensuring that seniors' wishes regarding medical treatments and quality of life are respected and honored is a crucial part of this process. This article explores essential steps for navigating end-of-life decisions with dignity.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy?

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Abby: This is absolutely a conversation tool and it’s a conversation starter, but then it documents the ability to document that conversation over time and potentially connect dots between care teams when you have this in the electronic healthcare record. It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

I think we shouldn’t be doing advanced care planning before somebody has a serious illness or something that’s likely to end their lives, beyond having a healthcare proxy. The post Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., This couple did not have advance healthcare directives nor were documents in place that would enable the wife to handle her husband’s independent financial accounts and property.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., This couple did not have advance healthcare directives nor were documents in place that would enable the wife to handle her husband’s independent financial accounts and property.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. Eric: Anybody else’s thoughts on that? I think Bob also noted documenting it. Rebecca: Agreed.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Not having healthcare, financial, and legal affairs in order. Second, this unprecedented medical and societal devastation shines a light on the importance of being certain that healthcare, financial, and legal affairs are in order, regardless of your age. Advance healthcare directives. AARP: Advance healthcare directives.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

You may also want to designate a healthcare proxy, who will be responsible for making sure your wishes are carried out. This person is known as a healthcare proxy or durable power of attorney for healthcare. When creating a living will, it is important to be as specific as possible about your wishes.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Alex: Bernie.

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Seasons Hospice

APRIL 24, 2023

This means that even if the situation normally calls for it, healthcare providers will not use any aggressive measures such as chest compressions, defibrillation, or breathing tubes to revive the person. DNR orders can be written or verbal, and they are typically discussed and signed by a patient or their healthcare proxy.

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