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The Emergency Medical File Every Caregiver Should Create
Family caregivers, especially those with medical power of attorney (POA), should assemble a folder containing these 9 important medical details that can be easily handed off to nurses, doctors and first responders when seniors need emergency health care.
6 CommentsHealth Care Decision Making in a Senior Living Facility
Even if you were heavily involved in the decision to place an elderly loved one in a senior living facility, you must have certain legal documents in place to participate in conversations with staff about their medical care.
3 Comments3 Legal Documents Caregivers Need to Manage a Senior’s Healthcare
HIPAA authorization, medical POA, and advance directives are the three legal documents family caregivers need to make critical care decisions on behalf of their elderly loved ones.
35 CommentsPreparing a Senior with Dementia for a Doctor's Visit
Once you've successfully taken the steps to get a dementia patient to go to the doctor, use the following tips to have an efficient, effective doctor's appointment.
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Medical POA Questions
Does POA for medical care give us ability to make decisions that my mom agrees with, or can we make decisions that she disagrees with?
14 AnswersMy brother is the POA for my mother for both Health and Financial Care. Is he obligated to share who the witnesses are to the document?
5 AnswersFather’s health is deteriorating and I’m unsure about what to do with a Medical POA I hold from 2007. Advice?
3 AnswersDo we need to cancel a durable POA before splitting it into multiple POAs?
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Medical POA Discussions
The waiting game
5 CommentsPlayadelcarmen2 Commented Dec 29, 2020Brother has placed Mom in nursing home and Sister is healthcare POA.
2 CommentsNeedHelpWithMom Commented Oct 2019Just at a loss of what to do - everything was going so well and now it's not.
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Medical POA Related Topics
- Care Decisions
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- Burnout
- Cognitive Decline
- Mild Dementia
- Long-distance Caregiving
- Severe Dementia
- Signs of Dementia
- Memory Loss
- Violent Behavior
- Cancer
- Moderate Dementia
- Lewy Body Dementia
- Dementia Behaviors
- Dementia Wandering
- Sundowner's Syndrome
- Breast Cancer
- Caregiving
- Adult Day Care
- Aging in Place