Healthcare Healthcare proxy Long-term care 
Accessible Home Health Care
MARCH 6, 2025
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.
Home With Help
APRIL 1, 2025
What Are Your Healthcare Preferences? Are they open to hospice care? Do they have a living will or an advance healthcare directive in place? Understanding these wishes now prevents confusion later and allows you to advocate for their care with confidence. Do they have long-term care insurance?
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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. But like, I feel like that still can’t really be understated in terms of like people just losing social connections. So there’s no healthcare surrogate.
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.
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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