Living Wills and Health Care Directives

Planning for Worst Case Scenario

Recent headlines about Schiavo family in Florida created a multitude of calls to Senior Approved Services from family members who wanted clarification on what it means to designate an individual to make health care decisions on behalf of a loved one that can not make his or her wishes known. Questions about why spouse’s decision wasn’t protected from legal actions brought by parents of a married adult child as well as intended intervention that our United States Congress attempted have furthered this confusion for each of us.

I did a little research on behalf of families (that phoned us) and believe following information that we passed on will be of interest to you as well. We found most of this information at The American Bar Association web site.

Who to Choose?

Who should you select to speak on your behalf in a case where you are physically and/or mentally not able to state your wishes? The following ten guidelines will help you decide. You should think about naming one primary person and a secondary back up in case your first choice is not available for some reason.

We live in a health conscience generation where vitamins and nutrition have become important topics. Through news, books, advertisements we are being educated as to why need to use vitamins. It’s great to see our generation become more aware of our health, but: Do We need take vitamins?

Much research has been done on actual benefit of vitamin supplements. A recent study has found further evidence that through intake of multivitamins men and women are able to lower their chance for heart attack. Our every day diets have proven to not provide right amount of all needed nutrients for our bodies.