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A PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO ADVANCE CARE PLANNING DISCUSSIONS

White Paper
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives
AMDA- THE SOCIETY FOR POST-ACUTE AND LONG-TERM CARE MEDICINE WHITE PAPER A17 SUBJECT: A Practitioner’s Guide to Advance Care Planning Discussions in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Setting INTRODUCED BY: Ethics subcommittee and Advance...

End-of-Life Advice: More Than 500,000 Chat on Medicare’s Dime

August 14, 2017
AMDA in the News
USA Today
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Practitioners, Resident, Right’s
The 90-year-old woman in the San Diego-area nursing home was quite clear, said Dr. Karl Steinberg. She didn’t want aggressive measures to prolong her life. If her heart stopped, she didn’t want CPR. But when Steinberg, a palliative care physician,...

Incomplete End-of-Life Forms Vex Physicians

October 14, 2016
AMDA in the News
Medscape
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Patient Centered
A study of elderly patients' end-of-life forms found that 69% had at least one section left blank, and 14% indicated the patient wanted comfort measures only, but also that they wanted be sent to the hospital, receive intravenous fluids, and/or...

Senior Living Team Can Help Clarify Older Adults' End-of-Life Wishes

October 4, 2016
AMDA in the News
McKnight's Senior Living
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), Patient Centered, Resident, Right’s
Physicians' Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments, or POLST, forms often are seen as a way to honor the end-of-life wishes of frail elderly individuals when they no longer can speak for themselves. A study published last week in the Journal of the...

White Paper on Surrogate Decision-Making and Advance Care Planning in Long-Term Care

White Paper
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
1. Introduction Many residents of nursing facilities and other long-term care settings are cognitively impaired and thus may be incapable of making decisions about their medical care. Clinicians providing care for these residents must rely...

Warner, Isakson introduce bipartisan bill to improve planning options for patients with advanced illness

June 10, 2015
AMDA in the News
Augusta Free Press
Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), Medicare, Patient Centered
U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA) introduced legislation today designed to give people with serious illness the freedom to make more informed choices about their care, and the power to have those choices honored.

Position Statement on Care at the End of Life

Resolution and Position Statements
Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, End-of-Life
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Position Statement P97 Becomes Policy February 1997 Background Care at the end of life is an important issue to members of the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA). As primary care physicians, we help patients and their families...

Position on Ethics Committees in Long Term Care

Resolution and Position Statements
Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Care Settings/Types, Ethics, Resident, Right’s
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Resolution E98 Becomes Policy March 1998 Ethical issues are part of everyday life in long term care settings. They include respecting individual rights and privacy in an institutional setting, issues of autonomy in states of dependency,...

Hospital Discharge Summaries/Medical Transfer Forms

Resolution and Position Statements
Advance Directives, Transitions of Care
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Physician
Resolution B02 Becomes Policy March 2002 AMDA resolves to present the following resolution to the AMA: that the American Medical Association (AMA), in conjunction with AMDA and other interested organizations, develop a proposed procedure...

Declaration of Death

Resolution and Position Statements
Advance Directives, End-of-Life Care, Hospice
Allied Health Professional, NP/PA, Patients & Families, Physician
Position Statement H03 Becomes Policy March 2003 The American Medical Directors Association has demonstrated a longstanding concern to improve the quality of End of Life care in our nation's skilled nursing facilities and throughout long-...