Advance Health Care Directives

• Checklist - 7 Important Instructions to Include in a Health Care Directive

  Know the 7 crucial medical-care instructions your parents should put in their advance health care directives.

• Article - Advance Health Care Directives and Living Wills: A Step-by-Step Guide

  How to set up a living will or health care directive. How to figure out what your parent wants and make sure it's reflected in the documents.

• Article - Advance Health Care Directives and Living Wills: A Beginner's Guide

  A living will or advance health care directive lets medical providers know a person's preferences when they're unable to do so independently.

• Article - Estate Planning Basics

  Estate planning manages money and property during life and passes it to survivors after death. Know what the basic estate planning documents can do.

• Checklist - 5 Legal Documents You Need for Your Parents

  These documents will ensure that you can assist your...

Blog Posts

• Blog Post - My mother has asked not to be resuscitated if she has a medical crisis, but my siblings disagree on what constitutes a medical crisis.

  Before she showed signs of dementia, my mother decided...

Questions & Answers

• Question - Are living trusts and living wills the same?

  When it comes to living wills and living trusts, only the names are similar. One concerns itself with controlling medical care; the other, passing title to property.

• Question - What documents, besides a will, do my aging parents need?

  Parents need an advance health care directive, a release for health care records, a durable power of attorney for finances, and maybe a living trust.

Tips & Reflections

• Tip - A Do-It-Yourself Advance Directive

  If your parents have been putting off preparing a living...

• Tip - Put It on a Card

  Legal documents, such as an advance healthcare directive...

• Tip - One Health Care Directive Is Enough

  Common sense might prompt you to think that if your...