When Bernice Blickle’s husband collapsed on the floor six years ago, paramedics rushed to the couple’s Woodland home, ready to administer CPR and bring him back to life. That’s when Blickle handed ...

Susan E. Hickman, Ph.D. Nursing home residents who have Physician’s Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment significantly increase the likelihood that their treatment preferences are known, a statewide ...

POLST is a medical order signed by a health care provider based on patient%27s wishes for end-of-life care The National POLST Task Force Initiative has endorsed POLST programs in 16 states Supporters ...

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Many patients with advanced cancer receive aggressive treatment near the end of life. The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is an innovation that converts patient preferences ...

Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment forms help ensure that resident and surrogate care preferences are honored. Nursing facilities that use Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment ...

MyDirectives, the leading provider of digital advance care planning (ACP) tools, announced today it was awarded a contract to improve the creation, accessibility, and interoperability of portable ...

Engaging patients and family members is crucial when there are documents specifying physician directives for life-threatening conditions. For clinicians, there are a handful of approaches to working ...

Susan Hickman, PhD, director of the Indiana University Center for Aging Research at Regenstrief Institute, and her colleagues nationwide are stressing the importance of including orders about ...

Following years of research that demonstrated feeding tubes can harm patients with dementia, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society has published an OHSU opinion paper recommending patient ...