Planning for Uncertainty

Living Wills and Other Advance Directives for You and Your Family

David John Doukas, William Reichel (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2007 | second edition
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-8608-9 (ISBN)

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It won't happen to me. I'm too busy to worry about a living will. My family will know what to do. No one wants to plan for death or incapacitating illness. But, as the emotional legal battle in the Terri Schiavo case made all too clear, people of all ages need to document and communicate clear decisions about the final details of their lives while they are healthy and have time to fully consider their own values and preferences. Here, Drs. David Doukas and William Reichel help individuals make decisions and communicate their wishes to health care providers and family members and other loved ones. Drs. Doukas and Reichel use a question-and-answer format to guide readers through the process-emphasizing the crucial connection between values and treatment preferences. They explain advance directives and the health care decision-making process, including the values history, family covenants, proxies, and proxy negation. The appendix includes resources and Web links for learning about advance directive requirements and obtaining legal forms in all fifty states.
This practical guide helps people navigate the important but often intimidating process of thinking about, and planning for, an uncertain future.

David John Doukas, M.D., is the William Ray Moore Endowed Chair of Family Medicine and Medical Humanism, professor and chief of the Division of Medical Humanism and Ethics in the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine, and a member of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy, and Law at the University of Louisville. He is also the chair of the University of Louisville Health Care Ethics Committee. William Reichel, M.D., is an affiliated scholar at the Center for Clinical Bioethics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Every Person Needs to Know
1. What the Patient Self-Determination Act Means to You
2. When Is Treatment Beneficial and When Is It Not Beneficial?
3. How Ethical Principles Affect Health Care Decisions
4. The Value of Values
5. How Advance Directives Work
6. The Values History: Defining Your Health Care Values
7. You, Your Family, and Health Care Decisions: Choosing a Proxy
8. Signing Advance Directives
Appendix
Links to Advance Directive Forms by State
Other Useful Links
My Advance Directives for Future Medical Treatment
The Values History
Advance Directive in Brief Card
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.7.2007
Reihe/Serie	A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-8018-8608-2 / 0801886082
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-8608-9 / 9780801886089
Zustand	Neuware