Choosing a health care agent requires having some sensitive and potentially uncomfortable conversations about your end-of-life wishes. PictureLake via Getty Images During the COVID-19 pandemic, many ...

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 ...

Columns share an author’s personal perspective. Life is a terminal condition; everyone who lives eventually dies. So medicine’s role is not just to treat and possibly cure diseases, but to improve the ...

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 ...

Learn how a psychiatric advance directive empowers you to dictate your treatment preferences and medication history before a crisis occurs.

Medical emergencies and unexpected health crises can occur at any age. Advance care planning encourages people to consider potential future scenarios and plan accordingly, even if they’re young and ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people, both old and young were faced with serious illness or a medical emergency that required vital decisions about their medical care, and sometimes those ...

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 ...

Advanced directives and COVID: An interview with geriatrician Leslie Kernisan As North Carolina slowly opens up after the first wave of coronavirus, it is a wise time to discuss the wishes of frail ...

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 ...

No matter your age, having a conversation (and putting in writing) what your medical wishes are when the end-of-life comes is a vitally important conversation to have. While it’s not always an easy ...

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 ...