What is the difference between a living will and an advance healthcare directive? Well, these terms can be confusing but the short answer is that a living will is a type of advance directive, while “advance directive” is a broad term used to describe any legal document, or set of documents, that addresses your future medical care. Living wills are advance directives, but not all advance directives are living Read More
End-of-Life Care Decision Making With Medical Directives
Just as we create estate plans for our eventual demise, we also need to plan ahead for the possibility that we will become sick and unable to make our own medical decisions. Medical science has created many miracles, among them the technology to keep patients alive longer, sometimes indefinitely. As a result of many well-publicized "right to die" cases, states have made it possible for individuals to give detailed Read More
