>you'd be AMAZED at the number of eldery who want full codes! Which is their right. We assume they would all want DNR's, but that isn't the case
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I'm amazed that we can breeze by that statement -- "We assume they would all want DNRS". That is the problem. We assume people don't want to live. We should assume people WANT to live unless they tell us otherwise.
You shouldn't be in danger of having your life ended because you didn't take the time to say you wanted to keep living.
THAT is the chance in focus I'm seeing in Long Term Care and the attitude towards the elderly.
The assumption that they are waiting on death, instead of living their last years.