PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hospice of the West (HOW), a leading community-based hospice and palliative care organization in Maricopa County, Arizona, underscores the critical need for meaningful, ...

Advance directives are legal documents that outline your preferences regarding major medical decisions. The two main types are a living will and a durable power of attorney. An advance directive is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers reported no significant differences in completion of advanced directives before and after provider ...

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 ...

Like most doctors, Linda Girgis has seen firsthand why advance directives are so important. She recalls working as a resident when a terminally ill patient coded. Without a written directive ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people unexpectedly needed critical care such as ventilators but were unable to communicate their end-of-life wishes to their loved ones. Researchers like me, who ...

Advance directives enable individuals to exercise control over their futures and ensure that the care they receive at the end of their lives is pursuant to their wishes. Yet, the majority of ...

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 ...

As Hong Kong moves towards implementing landmark legislation to protect people’s end-of-life care wishes, a research team at the LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has ...

Two main types of advance directives are living wills and healthcare power of attorney. These are legal documents that outline a person’s preferences regarding major medical decisions. An advance ...