Typically, the KERA Health Checkup looks at subjects about maintaining your health. But in connection with National Healthcare Decisions Day, we look at advance planning for terminal illness. Sam ...

You never know when a health crisis can happen. It could be a car accident or a sudden serious illness. In an emergency, you might end up in a situation where you are unable to speak for yourself.

Older adults with advance directives that were documented in electronic health records (EHRs) showed a lower likelihood of receiving burdensome end-of-life care and had lower rates of in-hospital ...

More and more Americans say they want a “good” death, which usually means dying peacefully at home, surrounded by loved ones. Documents called advance directives can help them achieve that goal by ...

I had hoped that by now most adults in this country would have completed an advance directive for medical care and assigned someone they trusted to represent their wishes if and when they are unable ...

No one likes to think about worst-case scenarios, particularly when it comes to their future health problems, and what could happen in the event they are unable to make their own health care decisions ...

Did you forget to do the most important thing for your advance directive? Dr. Anna Beck from Huntsman Cancer Institute tells you what an advance directive actually is, and the most important thing to ...

It’s a common hope that most people share: that their end-of-life wishes will be respected if something happened and they couldn’t make their own health care decisions. Yet only about a third of ...

It is never too early to discuss care preferences for patients with Alzheimer disease or other dementias. Alzheimer disease is a life-limiting disease with a median survival time from diagnosis of 4.2 ...

MURRAY, Utah (ABC4 Utah) – Emergencies happen and sometimes it’s a medical emergency, like if you are in a serious car accident or get a sudden critical illness. And sometimes these emergencies make ...

Treading into ethically and legally uncertain territory, a New York end-of-life agency has approved a new document that lets people stipulate in advance that they don’t want food or water if they ...

I had hoped that by now most adults in this country would have completed an advance directive for medical care and assigned someone they trusted to represent their wishes if and when they are unable ...