Advance Directives And Medical Treatment At The End Of Life

Living wills and advance directives for medical decisions

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/in-depth/living-wills/art-20046303

Advance directives guide choices for doctors and caregivers if you're terminally ill, seriously injured, in a coma, in the late stages of dementia or near the end of life. Advance directives aren't just for older adults. Unexpected end-of-life situations …

Advance Care Planning: Advance Directives for Health …

https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/advance-care-planning-advance-directives-health-care

Advance directives are legal documents that provide instructions for medical care and only go into effect if you cannot communicate your own wishes. The two most …

Advance directives and medical treatment at the end of life

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15154690/

To assess the consequences of advance medical directives--which explicitly specify a patient's preferences for one or more specific types of medical treatment in the …

Ethics and Advance Planning for End-of-Life Care | AAFP

https://www.aafp.org/about/policies/all/ethics-advance-planning.html

Advance Health Care Directives and Living …

https://www.helpguide.org/articles/end-of-life/advanced-health-care-directives-and-living-wills.htm

If your current advance health care directive no longer reflects your wishes for end-of-life care, refer to your state’s (or country's) laws for the correct way to …

Making Decisions for Someone at the End of Life

https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/making-decisions-someone-end-life

A care plan summarizes a person’s health conditions, medications, health care providers, emergency contacts, end-of-life care wishes, such as advance …

Advance Directives and Medical Treatment at the End of …

https://www.nber.org/papers/w9955

Acknowledgements and Disclosures Download Citation Non-Technical Summaries Advance Directives and Medical Treatment at the End of Life Laws dealing with advance …

Advance directives and medical treatment at the end of life

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629603001036

Some laws enhancing incentives for compliance simply state that advance treatment directives of an approved form are legally binding; others specify civil and/or …

Advance directives in the context of end-of-life palliative …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24152977/

Summary: An advanced directive is a legal document based on the principle of autonomy that expresses the desire of the patient in relation to different medical …

End-of-Life Documents: Proxies, Living Wills, and DNRs

https://www.verywellhealth.com/advance-directives-documents-2615080

Advance directives include proxies, living wills, do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders, and organ donor cards, all of which are meant to protect you when you can’t …