Advanced Directives and the MOST form Having a MOST form (short for “Medical Orders for Specific Treatment”) or POLST (“Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment”) form is generally recommended ...

Five minutes. That is all I had to make my case: to convince this 80-year-old man to fill out an advanced care directive. John, as I’ll call him, had served in the military for over thirty years, ...

While we deal with an unprecedented global pandemic which alters life as we know it for all of us, COVID-19 brings up concerns regarding our clients’ Advanced Directives that were prepared and signed ...

No one likes to think about worst-case scenarios, particularly when it comes to their future health problems, and what could happen in the event they are unable to make their own health care decisions ...

Less than half of nursing home residents with end-stage renal disease have completed advanced directives that can help reduce hospitalizations and intensive procedures in their last months of life, a ...

Has the coronavirus pandemic made you think more about end-of life-planning... like advanced directives, a living will, or power of attorney? We talk about the different options, how the pandemic has ...

April 16 is National Healthcare Decisions Day. What decisions would you prefer if you had a health emergency and couldn’t speak up about your treatment? The best way to assure that you will be cared ...

Unlike a will, which can involve a lot of time and money with an attorney, advanced directives for health care contingencies are relatively simple and inexpensive to prepare.The Colorado Health & ...

Decisions regarding end-of-life care should be made while one is healthy and able to think through those choices, said Coralee Hatcher, palliative care nurse at Raleigh General Hospital in Beckley.

Terri Schiavo's family probably never imagined the decisions they would have to make regarding her care. But the court battle surrounding this 41-year-old woman, who was in a vegetative state since a ...