About 40% of older Americans have an advance directive. This typically includes a living will that spells out the care you ...

All adults should have an advance directive, and experts say that the elderly or seriously ill should also fill out a Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment form. These two forms specify your ...

DALLAS & PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HIT Commons, the Oregon POLST Registry, and MyDirectives today announced a major interoperability milestone. For the first time, validated Oregon POLST forms ...

The Medical Society of New Jersey, the state’s largest physicians group, opposed a recently tabled bill for physician-assisted suicide. But it is pushing an alternative that may be just as bad: the ...

When first developed in the 1970s, advance directives focused on providing specific legal instructions, such as a patient’s wishes to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment in cases of ...

Engaging patients and family members is crucial when there are documents specifying physician directives for life-threatening conditions. For clinicians, there are a handful of approaches to working ...

The American Hospital Association estimates that half of Americans suffer from chronic conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Following a diagnosis, many experience concerns about the ...

A 92-year-old woman resides in an assisted-living facility in Oregon and has extensive inoperable coronary artery disease, becoming breathless moving from her bed to the chair. Capable of decisions, ...

Healthcare treatment. Hospital preferences. End-of-life care. Some choices are too important to leave to chance—yet they often are. A recent poll found that only 46% of older adults in the U.S. had ...

Following years of research that demonstrated feeding tubes can harm patients with dementia, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society has published an OHSU opinion paper recommending patient ...