An advance directive is an often overlooked part of estate planning, but it shouldn't be. This array of critical legal documents clarifies your medical care wishes should you be incapacitated. After ...

People have a right to make their own health care decisions. Advance Directives for Health Care (ADHC) can help people communicate their treatment choices if there comes a time when they can’t tell ...

Implementing advance care planning consults can increase advance directive completion rates. The authors demonstrate the impact of consults on completed advance directives in the medical record.

You can’t plan for a life-threatening medical emergency. But depending on where you live and if you’re pregnant, the tiny bit of control you do have can be taken away.

States generally allow a person (principal) to appoint another person (agent) to make health care decisions, receive protected health information, or both on the principal’s behalf. In many states, ...

May 3—Karen Cuellar was lost. She simply wasn't sure what to do because she wasn't clear about what her husband would have wanted. On Jan. 3, 2019, her husband, Alex Cuellar, 66, suffered a heart ...

A serious cycling accident on Gibraltar Road, a freeway collision, a stroke — any of these could take away your ability to communicate, and they can happen at any age. The Advance Care Directive is a ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – If you experience a catastrophic accident or illness that leaves you unconscious or unable to communicate, do your loved ones know what your wishes are? In the U.S., ...

Five minutes. That is all I had to make my case: to convince this 80-year-old man to fill out an advanced care directive. John, as I’ll call him, had served in the military for over thirty years, ...

Carolina Caring is offering an upcoming workshop for advance care planning and advance directives (North Carolina living will and health care power of attorney). Future health care choices will be ...

If you have questions or need guidance in preparing your advance care planning documents, please contact us and a staff member will be glad to assist you or connect you with your clinic social worker.