{"id":17423,"date":"2021-01-04T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17423"},"modified":"2021-01-04T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:10:00","slug":"expanding-advanced-care-planning-for-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=17423","title":{"rendered":"Expanding Advanced Care Planning for Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.blogs.va.gov\/VAntage)<\/p>\n<p>Life-Sustaining Treatment Orders empower older Veterans to communicate their authentic wishes for care at the end of their life.<\/p>\n<p>VA Geriatric Scholar Elke Baker (pictured above) and her Tampa home-based primary care team have achieved a 97% completion rate of these orders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important to have these conversations during non-crisis times when patients have decision-making capacity,\u201d said Baker.\u00a0 Continue reading blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.va.gov\/VAntage\/82901\/expanding-advanced-care-planning-veterans\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16129\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point--300x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point--300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/VAntage-Point-.png 327w\" 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>(Source &#8211; www.blogs.va.gov\/VAntage) Life-Sustaining Treatment Orders empower older Veterans to communicate their authentic wishes for care at the end of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-end-of-life","category-veterans-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17423","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=17423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17424,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17423\/revisions\/17424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}