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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

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. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. So the first order on all POLST forms is around code status.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago. How do I reconcile these two issues?

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

I once had a patient in the ICU at Moffitt who had had a stroke and was facing, not recovered, going to a nursing home with a feeding tube. Eric: Initially it started with living wills back in the early-1970s development of durable-powered attorneys for healthcare. And that helps us get to the decision.

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