News tagged with living wills


People with few assets less likely to plan for end-of-life health care

Socioeconomic status is a big predictor of how likely people are to have living wills, a power of attorney for health care decisions or to participate in informal discussions about treatment preferences with ...

Health created Aug 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Palliative care resource helps ease changes

An interactive toolkit created by a team from the University of Alberta helps palliative care patients and their care providers to deal with the physical, emotional and relationship changes that come with terminal and chronic ...

Health created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many boomers avoid living wills, say they're young

(AP) -- Many baby boomers don't have end-of-life legal documents such as a living will - and some say it's because they feel healthy and young in their middle-age years and don't need to dwell on death.

Health created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0