advance directive
State-by-State Advance Directive Forms
An Advance Health Care Directive, also called an Advance Directive, is a legal document stating how you would like to be treated...
All You Need To Know About Advance Directives
When you can’t make health decisions for yourself, this is the north star that guides your loved ones and doctors in the right...
All You Need To Know About Organizing Important Documents
Our endgame is simple: Make all the paperwork in your life manageable so you don’t overwhelm the people you leave behind.
8 Reasons You Should Decline Being A Health Care Proxy
Being asked to assume responsibility of another person’s health care is an incredible display of trust and an endorsement of your...
8 Movies Where CPR Performed Miracles
Movies and medicine have a dicey history, with one insisting on maximum dramatic impact and the other insisting on "facts," "...
Beat The Post-Summer Blues With This Simple Planning Guide
Ease your way back into the working world with these tips.
Checklist: Documents To Organize And Share
Here are some of the essential documents, accounts, and types of information you should organize and have at the ready before...
Checklist: Creating An Advance Health Care Directive
An Advance Health Care Directive, also called an Advance Directive, is a legal document stating how you would like to be treated...
All You Need To Know About Naming A Health Care Proxy
Your Health Care Proxy will advocate for the care and treatment you want when you cannot advocate for yourself.
How To Choose A Health Care Proxy
The person you appoint as your Health Care Proxy (or Health Care Power of Attorney) should be able to powerfully advocate for you...
What You Need To Know About Creating A Living Will
A Living Will details the types of medical treatments you would like or not like at the end of life, specifically in terms of...
How To Create A Do Not Resuscitate Order (DNR)
A Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order is a legal order written in a hospital or in conjunction with a doctor that states that you do...
How Organ Donation Works
If the person who died was a registered organ donor, measures will be taken to maintain the organs through artificial support.
How To Evaluate Life Support Treatments
When you create an Advance Directive or Living Will, you specify the types of life support treatments and other medical...
All You Need To Know About Being An Organ Donor
Organ donation is the process of donating certain organs to another person upon your death.
How To Be A Good Health Care Proxy
If you've been named as a Health Care Proxy (or Health Care Power of Attorney), here's what you should know about your new role —...
What's A "Physicians Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment"?
A POLST form is a legal document for people with an advanced progressive or terminal illnesses and specifies the type of care a...
All You Need To Know About Advance Health Care Directives
An advance health care directive, also called an advance directive, is a legal document stating how you would like to be treated...
From our Blog
50 Shades Of Planning
Whip your plan into shape with these tips.
The overwhelming success of 50 Shades of Grey, both the book and record-...
35 Movie Solutions For All Your Health Care Concerns
Worried about your family’s ongoing coverage? Your access to specialty care? Experimental treatments? Luckily, these 35...
How Not to Die
In the May issue of The Atlantic, Jonathan Rauch looks into the work of two doctors, Dr. Angelo Volandes and his wife Dr....
Grey's Anatomy Health Care Proxy Dilemma
Steamiest health care proxy dilemma ever? When last season of Grey’s Anatomy ended Seattle Grace Hospital was hit by a...
A Comic About Advance Directives; Almost Funny
It's not often cartoon artists mine for humor in the world of advance directives, but when they do, you better believe we're...
Carol Burnett Faces Terminal Diagnosis On Hawaii Five-0
Legendary actress/comedienne Carol Burnett made a guest appearance on a very special (and sad) Thanksgiving episode of CBS...
If You Have An Alligator In Your Backyard, Don't Feed It!
Most people in America don't have alligators in their backyard. If you live in the south, particularly Florida, it's not...
Casey Kasem Passes; Preceded By Family Drama
Kerri Kasem protesting on October 1, 2013 after being denied contact with her father by her stepmom Jean Kasem. A court...
Talking with Your Parents
In the New York Times this week there was a piece on the importance of talking with your parents about their financial...
Rock Center about Making Tough End-of-Life Decisions
Last night Rock Center with Brian Williams aired a very powerful piece about a tough subject: Talking about dying in order...
1 in 3 Seniors Dies With (Not Of) Dementia
This week the Alzheimer's Association released a report stating that 1 in 3 seniors dies with Alzheimer's disease or another...
National Healthcare Decisions Day
Today is National Healthcare Decisions Day, a day to inspire and encourage everyone to create advance health care directives...