Suppose you became seriously ill or injured and could no longer make your own healthcare decisions? You don’t have to be old to become incapacitated. A living will, a component of an advance health care directive, can outline your wishes…
Living wills define medical preferences to be followed if you are unable to decide for yourself due to illness or injury. Incapacity can happen for many reasons, including an accident, an illness rendering you too sick to communicate, dementia, anesthesia,…
Kevin was watching his wife Winnie in her nursing home room with tears in his eyes. The medical staff just finished inserting a feeding tube into Winnie – an act Kevin knew she didn’t want. Unfortunately, Winnie couldn’t express her…
The situation with Kevin and Winnie could have been avoided through the use of proper advance directive. An advance directive is actually a collection of documents. What that includes differs depending on your needs and wishes, along with what the…