Articles related to "Health Care Decisions"

Patients need to understand their patient rights and become their own advocate when dealing with the health care system.

Assessing the capacity of people to make decisions about their functional problems has substantial ethical, clinical, and financial implications.

What are advanced directives, what are the different types of advanced directives and how do they work?

Health care planning is essential in elder care. Elder Law Attorneys specialize in Health Care Proxies, Living Wills, DNR's and other necessary legal tools.

With action on health care a top legislative priority for the Obama administration, two key figures agree that sweeping reforms are necessary while differing elsewhere.

Health technology assessment developed in the 1970s in response to rising health care expenditures and concerns about inefficient health care systems.

In New York, in the absence of a patient's competence to express wishes about treatment, only written Advance Directives allow doctors to remove life support measures.

An introduction to the professional patient advocate, including suggestions on how to get help in navigating cancer treatment and care.

Adult children can expect they will be needed to care for elderly parents as they age. Here are guidelines for balancing the needs of aging parents with one's own.

If a woman wants to make the decision to responsibly take birth control, here is some information to help her make an informed decision.

People with an ongoing relationship with a family physician generally have better health outcome, hence the importance of choosing the right primary care provider.

Caring for elderly parents or a loved one at home can get more difficult as illness progresses. Deciding when, whether & where to get help can seem daunting. Start here.

The Death With Dignity Act (DWDA) became Oregon State law in 1997. Based on 2007 figures, 341 persons have died under the law; 15.6 DWDA deaths per 10,000 total deaths.

The IUD is a cost effective and efficient method of birth control. Learn about how it's inserted and what the risks and benefits are.

If you are unable to make or communicate your wishes, your doctor will look to next of kin to help direct your care. Learn about a Health Care Power of Attorney below.

The Patient Self Determination Act of 1991 requires health care providers to inform patients about their right concerning life-sustaining treatments when terminally ill.

Montana Senate's Personhood Amendment effectively bans abortion but it still has a long way to go before it becomes part of the state constitution, if it does at all.

Living longer means that our elderly population will require care for an extended period of time, a responsibility that is now falling to the baby boomer generation.

With the heckling of President Obama during a joint session of Congress and a raucous and harsh tone related to the U.S. health care debate, Americans seem divided.

Here is a helpful interview from a homebirthing mother with information about pain relief, midwifery care and payment for homebirths.