Legal Preparedness for Aging and Caregiving
The legal documents that every adult in the U.S. should have to help ensure their finances and health care are well-managed.
Living Will
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By David Orentlicher While it is important for people to express their wishes about end-of-life care in advance, a court case in Hawaii reminds us that advance directives do not always ensure that patient’s wishes will be followed. Karen Okada wrote a living will, which the hospital ethics committee found to express a desire not…