Seasons Hospice

JUNE 27, 2023

Offering Palliative Care Services Palliative care focuses on improving the quality of life for individuals with serious illnesses, including those nearing the end of their lives. They include living wills and durable power of attorney for healthcare. It addresses physical symptoms, emotional distress, and spiritual concerns.

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Traditions Health

APRIL 16, 2023

The term advance directive is also at times referred to as a living will as it varies from state to state. Advance directives communicate medical treatment desires for you, preventing your family from having to make difficult decisions on your behalf. Some states ask for both things.

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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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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

We’ve had a lot of success with people gravitating to these events, because we’re always looking for someone else to partner with, whether it’s talking about advance directives, living wills and those types of things. We kind of piggyback on that to then engage as many people as possible. We’ve really leaned into those partnerships.”

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

When advanced care planning first came out, it was really this transactional process of completing an advance directive, which includes designating a health care surrogate and completing a living will. It requires careful communication designed to identify what is most important to patients.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Yael 10:34 More like a living will kind of a thing. Tim 01:40 Wonderful to be here. Thanks for having me. Alex 01:42 And we’re delighted to welcome from my home state of Michigan, Joe Dixon, who’s a geriatrician and palliative care doc at Trinity Health. Joe, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Joe 01:54 Thanks so much.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right? Susan: Thanks so much, Alex. Alex: And we have returning, Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor at the University of Pittsburgh. Welcome back, Bob. Bob: Thank you. Welcome back, Rebecca. Rebecca: Thanks for having us. Rebecca: Thanks for having us. Welcome back, Sean.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. So what do we do about it? What’s wrong with the “pictures of hands clasping each other” as our palliative care meme?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 22, 2024

If they are Jewish Orthodox, for example, they have a holographic living will in which a rabbi is named to be consulted when making health care decisions. Case in point, roughly 38% of adults nationwide conflated hospice with palliative in a March 2022 study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Eric: Initially it started with living wills back in the early-1970s development of durable-powered attorneys for healthcare. That’s really hard to do just because under our hospital system, and a lot of people don’t have a doctor who’s known them very well. Bernie: So let me flip it around.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 26, 2023

It helps individuals live as comfortably as possible during their illness by managing physical, emotional, spiritual, and practical aspects of care. Advanced Directives Advanced directives , sometimes referred to as living wills, are documents that provide direction for end-of-life care decisions.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

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. That will be the last one in his life. Don’t thicken it, make sure he gets what he wants. Don’t ask anybody. It won’t take long, go get it by yourself.” Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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High Peaks Hospice

APRIL 16, 2022

A living will is an advance directive that speaks to what care you want or do not want (i.e. National Healthcare Decisions Day, observed annually on April 16th, is aimed at increasing the number of Americans who have completed an advance directive. appeared first on High Peaks Hospice and Palliative Care.

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Palliverse

AUGUST 31, 2022

How a person lives in their final days needs to be considered. All of us who are born and live will one day die. People with life-limiting illnesses will live for much shorter periods than most people of similar ages. How can we shape the last thousand days of New Zealanders’ lives? Exactly when we do not know.

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1-800-HOSPICE

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s more helpful in emergency situations than the living will , because it results in a yellow and red piece of paper with standard formatting. In emergency situations, EMTs won’t take the time to read a living will. 1 Hospice patients without a DNR prove no more or less likely than patients with one to live longer than 179 days.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Advance Healthcare Directives (also known as advance directives, living wills, or durable power of attorney for healthcare) are legal documents that specify your preferences for medical treatment and designate a healthcare proxy (also known as agent or surrogate) should you no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacitation.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Advance Healthcare Directives (also known as advance directives, living wills, or durable power of attorney for healthcare) are legal documents that specify your preferences for medical treatment and designate a healthcare proxy (also known as agent or surrogate) should you no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacitation.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

also known as advance directives, living wills, or durable power of attorney for healthcare) are legal documents that specify your preferences for medical treatment and designate a healthcare proxy (also known as agent or surrogate) should you no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacitation. Advance healthcare directives.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Or collaborative revising where they’ll send me a draft and then I’ll read over it but then live will work through changes and have some back and forth rather than I may email, you email me, I email you. That happened to me when reading “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.” This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

There is a lively debate going on in academic circles about the value of Advance Care Planning (ACP). Summary Transcript Summary. It’s not a new debate but has gathered steam at least in palliative care circles since Sean Morrisons published a JPM article titled “ Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong.” Juliet: Thank you.

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