Most of us are probably familiar with the concept of the advance health care directive, which is sometimes referred to as a living will. It's a legal document that outlines your specific wishes ...

Learn about end-of-life planning with cancer, including how to express your wishes, appoint a decision-maker, write advance directives, and plan for palliative and hospice care.

Learn more about advance directives and health care planning from the Utah Commission on Aging. What is an advance directive? Advance directive forms are a way to write down your wishes before a ...

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 fill out an advance directive today.

An advance direction is a document expressing a person's wishes about critical care when he or she is unable to decide for him or herself.

With a dementia-specific advance directive, the individual addresses a range of questions based on how cognitive decline typically progresses.

Learn how living wills and advance directives offer instructions in case of incapacity and when to use a living will vs. advance directive.

First, fill out and sign an advanced health care directive and give a copy to your spouse, partner, children, other relative and your doctor.

A majority in all groups believed that advance directives may influence the course of treatment (79–85%), yet half of those surveyed in all groups fear that patients could be pressurised into writing ...

Advanced medical directives let people make decisions about treatments, procedures and organ donations and appoint someone as an agent to carry out those wishes if a patient is unable to.

With a dementia-specific advance directive, the individual addresses a range of questions based on how cognitive decline typically progresses.