Here's what actually happens when your person is sent home with care — who's coming, when the first visit lands, and how the decisions that matter get documented.
When your person is sent home, their referral becomes an accepted placement with a committed first-visit window — a specific clinician, a specific time.
If your person shares access with you, you see the same status their care team sees: who accepted, when the first visit lands, read-only, no phone tag.
Access is granted by the patient, scoped to exactly what they choose, and every view is logged. No surprise exposure of their health information.
Advance care planning is a set of conversations and documents that record what your person wants — who speaks for them, what care they'd choose, and what they'd decline. CaraLoom helps families and care teams track these decisions; it never makes them for you.
Common directive documents and how signing works where you live — all 50 states + DC.
Most states require adult witnesses, a notary, or both for a living will or healthcare proxy to be validly signed — and the rules differ by state and by document. POLST/MOLST forms are completed WITH a clinician and require a clinician's signature.
A living will or healthcare proxy generally guides care only when the person can no longer speak for themselves. POLST/MOLST forms are medical orders and are followed by clinicians as soon as they are signed by a clinician — signing and taking effect are not the same moment for every document.
An umbrella term for legal documents — like a living will and a healthcare proxy (medical power of attorney) — that record who can speak for a person and what care they would or wouldn’t want if they can no longer speak for themselves.
A living will records treatment preferences in writing; a healthcare proxy names a person (an agent) to make medical decisions. Many states combine both into a single advance-directive form.
Signing makes a document valid, but a living will or healthcare proxy generally only guides care once the person can no longer make or communicate decisions. POLST/MOLST-style forms are different — they are medical orders that clinicians follow as soon as a clinician signs them.
Generally no. Every state publishes free statutory forms through its health department or attorney general. Most states require adult witnesses, a notary, or both — the form’s instructions spell out exactly what your state expects.
A portable medical order for people with serious illness or frailty, completed with a clinician and signed by one. Its name varies by state (POLST, MOLST, POST, MOST), and unlike a living will it is an active medical order the moment it is signed.
Get copies on file with the care team, the hospital, and the named healthcare agent — a signed document sitting in a drawer helps no one. CaraLoom’s care teams track which documents are on file and when to revisit them.
Your person grants access; you see the status. That's the whole deal.