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 ...

While you never hope to use one, an advance directive outlines your preferences for medical care if you become ill and are unable to make decisions for yourself. An advance directive is a legal ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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 ...

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 ...