Expanding Advanced Care Planning for Veterans

(Source – www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage)

Life-Sustaining Treatment Orders empower older Veterans to communicate their authentic wishes for care at the end of their life.

VA Geriatric Scholar Elke Baker (pictured above) and her Tampa home-based primary care team have achieved a 97% completion rate of these orders.

“It is important to have these conversations during non-crisis times when patients have decision-making capacity,” said Baker.  Continue reading blog here…

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