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Aging with Dignity Celebrates National Healthcare Decisions Day
Published in Law and Health Weekly, May 2nd, 2009
Aging with Dignity, a national non-profit organization that created and distributes the Five Wishes living will, joins with thousands of other organizations nationwide on April 16th to encourage Americans to complete an advance directive on National Healthcare Decisions Day. An advance directive - also called a living will - designates the person to whom you grant legal authority to make health care decisions for you if you cannot make them yourself. It also directs the person in life support treatment options, allowing you to state what you want or don't want.
Surveys show only about one in five Americans has completed an advance directive, even though everyone over...
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