GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Yael 10:34 More like a living will kind of a thing. And importantly, our social worker, Aunt Kelly, actually does a search and I would say 75% of the time she finds somebody maybe even higher than that, finds somebody who’s actually a surrogate. Let’s say they’re in the ICU now on a ventilator.

Healthcare proxy 228

Healthcare proxy Social worker Ventilator Geriatrics 228

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

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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Document Feeding Resuscitation Article 233

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation. So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right? Bob: I want to separate palliative care, which is a medical healthcare, nursing doctors, pharmacists, social workers from specialty palliative care.

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Palliative care Geriatrics Palliate Document 154