An advance directive is a way to tell your loved ones and doctors your wishes if something happens and you can’t speak for yourself. A directive can include the type and extent of your medical care.

Dear Savvy Senior: All this horrible coronavirus carnage got me thinking about my own end-of-life decisions if I were to get sick. Can you recommend some good resources that can help me create a ...

An advance directive is a legally binding document regulated by state laws. Advance directives are subject to The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA), 1990, a federal law that encourages individuals ...

If you were in a hospital bed, severely brain damaged and unable to speak for yourself, would you want distraught family members to guess or, even worse, debate your end-of-life wishes? Several state ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a significant loss of life, often far sooner than individuals and families expected for their loved ones. This past year has raised conversations on health ...

April 16, 2016 is National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD). While there may be no parades or fanfare, we should all pay attention to this special day. National Healthcare Decisions Day reminds us how ...

Writing an advance directive is often considered step one for people who want to have a voice in the medical decisions made at the end of their lives, even if they are no longer able to communicate. I ...

Mary Beebe confronted her mortality about three years ago, when her primary care physician handed her an advance directive form during a regular visit. It asked her to specify which life-extending ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Both clinicians and patients more often utilized advance directives that were more “readable, understandable, ...

For the past 20 years, receptionists at St. Charles Bend and other hospitals have handed out forms giving their patients a chance to dictate how they want to die, the types of life-sustaining medical ...

New Hampshire’s advance directive form got an update Monday. Governor Hassan signed a bill that seeks to streamline and simplify the document. Advance directives—sometimes called living wills—let ...