{"id":15975,"date":"2020-05-12T08:11:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T12:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15975"},"modified":"2020-05-12T08:11:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T12:11:03","slug":"no-intubation-seniors-fearful-of-covid-19-are-changing-their-living-wills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15975","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No Intubation\u2019: Seniors Fearful Of COVID-19 Are Changing Their Living Wills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>DENVER \u2015 Last month, Minna Buck revised a document specifying her wishes should she become critically ill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo intubation,\u201d she wrote in large letters on the form, making sure to include the date and her initials.<\/p>\n<p>Buck, 91, had been following the news about COVID-19. She knew her chances of surviving a serious bout of the illness were slim. And she wanted to make sure she wouldn\u2019t be put on a ventilator under any circumstances.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/no-intubation-seniors-fearful-of-covid-19-are-changing-their-living-wills\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. KaiserFamily Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) DENVER \u2015 Last month, Minna Buck revised a document specifying her wishes should<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,34,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-emerging-health-issues","category-end-of-life","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15976,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15975\/revisions\/15976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}