Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

We must be better at positioning hospice care as a part of improving their lives, rather than simply being present at death.” Overcoming boundaries Providers have long fought to improve understanding of their services since the Medicare Hospice Benefit was established in 1983. We’ve really leaned into those partnerships.”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Yael 10:34 More like a living will kind of a thing. Yael 44:20 I would say for AGS 2025, because I’m going to be giving a presentation with a colleague about that specific issue. Is the patient in your descriptor? Do they have a health care decision maker? Do they have a health care proxy? Alex 10:41 No, they don’t.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If you have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and are receiving hospice care, you may want to consider creating a living will. When creating a living will, it is important to be as specific as possible about your wishes. Once you have created your living will, it is important to keep it up to date.

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Hospice Advantage Solutions

MARCH 25, 2016

Health Care Proxy, Durable power of attorney for healthcare, Living will, and. The use of these codes requires a face-to-face visit, however, the patient may not be present. Examples of Advance Directives. Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment/Out of Hospital DNR.

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Hope Hospice

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Some people already have established a living will and/or power of attorney for healthcare, or a POLST Form (Physician Order for Life Sustaining Treatment) that record in advance your choices regarding medical life support and identify your representative for medical decisions in the event you become unable to communicate. Group education.

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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. People would present with horrible opportunistic infections, not just pneumocystis pneumonia, but CNS infections with toxoplasmosis and wasting syndrome, of course. Bernie: And so Alex, it was horrible.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

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. So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right? And it I think really highlights how that’s a very blurry line.

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