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

GeriPal

Yael 10:34 More like a living will kind of a thing. Do they have a health care decision maker? Do they have a health care proxy? 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. Their advanced directive.

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