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An Introduction to Advance Directives

Traditions Health

The term advance directive is also at times referred to as a living will as it varies from state to state. As the disease progresses, you may begin thinking more about Do-Not-Resuscitate orders and mechanical ventilation. Creating your Advance Directive Each state has different requirements for advance directives.

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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. Let’s say they’re in the ICU now on a ventilator. So on the clinical side, people are really focused on how long do they have to be on the ventilator and managing that. Eric 27:31 They are unrepresented, they’re in the ICU on a ventilator.

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Done Right, Advance Care Planning Can Reduce High-Acuity Utilization

Hospice News

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

GeriPal

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

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

And now ICU care has flourished, and we can keep people alive in the sense that their heart is beating and we can sustain their ventilation and circulation. For example, I had another patient in the ICU who she was on a ventilator. ICU care was pretty rudimentary. It’s certainly not common in my practice.

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

GeriPal

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. That will be the last one in his life. Don’t ask anybody. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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How Long Can You Be in Palliative Care?

Seasons Hospice

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.