What is a Health Care Proxy? Below is the definition from www.medicinenet.com: Health care proxy: An advance medical directive in the form of a legal document that designates another person (a proxy) ...

There may come a time when you may need to become an unpaid caregiver for a parent, relative, or friend. And, in the best case, your recipient of care has put their affairs in order long before ...

Have you picked someone to make medical decisions for you if you can’t make them for yourself? Health care advocates say if you haven’t, you should. A recent study found two thirds of Americans have ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew F. Erskine is a trusts and estates attorney. Along with a Will and a Trust, the most common documents used in estate ...

If someone has signed a health care proxy and durable power of attorney while they have capacity, is there any benefit to also petitioning for guardianship or conservatorship later on if that ...

Q: My son turned 18 this year and is now living away at college. I’m concerned his doctors will not provide me access to his medical information — that, I will not be able to help him if he gets sick ...

Q: Before my husband passed last year, he and I spoke frequently about our health care wishes and decisions. Now that he is gone, I’m worried about who will help me with those decisions if I should ...

Whenever I meet someone new, one of the first questions I'm asked is: "What do you do for a living?" After telling them I'm an estate planning attorney, the response I get 95% of the time, after a ...

I have a Power of Attorney, but at my last doctor appointment, they asked about a Health Care Proxy. Isn’t that the same thing? That’s a great question and just in time for National Health Care ...

Something we have heard and read repeatedly since discussion of health-care reform became an everyday event is that it must include the public’s participation, so that our elected representatives can ...

ISO: someone who knows me, who has my interests at heart; someone who will salve my wounds and keep me from harm; someone who laughs at my jokes. Someone who loves me. ISO: a health-care proxy. This ...