Iowa effort focuses on end of life care
Iowa launches a statewide program led by University of Iowa professor Douglas Wakefield to improve end-of-life care. The three-year $450,000 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant funds the Iowa Partnership for Quality Care in Dying with Dignity Advancing Comfort Choice and Control. The project seeks pain management guidelines for clinicians, better support for families, and a push to adopt Pain As A Fifth Vital Sign as a standard practice. It also aims to address out-of-hospital Do Not Resuscitate laws and expand community dialogue on death and dying.
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Power of Attorney for Health Care Sets End-of-Life Plan
Margaret Lazarz designated Rosella Lazarz and Janet Aide as health care representatives in a written power of attorney, directing doctors not to perform CPR unless a good chance of survival exists. The document clearly states her end-of-life preferences and guides decisions by family members.
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Janet Aide
Advance directives guide end of life planning
The article explains how advance directives let patients name decision makers and specify treatments if incapacitated. It describes living wills and durable power of attorney for health care, cites Five Wishes as a discussion tool, and notes widespread adoption efforts by Aging with Dignity, AARP, and Partnerships for Caring with examples from Wisconsin and other states.
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