You don't need to hire an attorney to prepare an advance health care directive, said Moriah Opp, patient education coordinator at Altru Health System in Grand Forks. "You can go online and print out ...

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 ...

Learn how a psychiatric advance directive empowers you to dictate your treatment preferences and medication history before a crisis occurs.

CURE invited Kathy Brandt, of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, to share her thoughts on the importance of advance care planning.I've never seen a death panel. Although what comes ...

Dr. Ami Mac was hospitalized in March with symptoms identical to Covid-19. The 44-year-old doctor in Palo Alto, California, has an underlying immune deficiency, but has “never had shortness of breath ...

Wellness Wednesday is sponsored by Intermountain Health. We all know we are vulnerable to illness and injury, but most of us don’t like to talk about it. But there are many good reasons we should all ...

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 ...

I had hoped that by now most adults in this country would have completed an advance directive for medical care and assigned someone they trusted to represent their wishes if and when they are unable ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Most people plan on ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...