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National Healthcare Decisions Day April 16

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NHPCO Encourages People to Put Their Needs at the Center on National Healthcare Decisions Day. National Healthcare Decisions Day gives everyone a reminder to do that for themselves: put yourself at the center and think about your own health care wishes. The post National Healthcare Decisions Day April 16 appeared first on NHPCO.

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NHPCO’s CaringInfo Program Launches New Consumer Blog, Insights

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CaringInfo also offers more information about advance directives and free advance directives and instructions for all 50 states plus Puerto Rico and Washington DC in both English and Spanish, downloadable as PDF files. Making Your Healthcare Wishes and Medical Choices Known Advance Directive vs. Living Will: Which Do You Need?

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High Peaks Hospice Observes National Healthcare Decisions Day By Sharing the FIVE WISHES.

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National Healthcare Decisions Day, observed annually on April 16th, is aimed at increasing the number of Americans who have completed an advance directive. A living will is an advance directive that speaks to what care you want or do not want (i.e. not in a bank box or safe). Discuss your wishes with them too!

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Caregiving Best Practices: Get Healthcare, Financial, and Legal Affairs in Order

Hope Hospice

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., He regularly cares for his elderly parents, but this time he sought guidance about relatives who live out of state—a couple in their 40s, both of whom were diagnosed with COVID-19.

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Caregiver Mistakes: Not Having Healthcare, Financial, and Legal Affairs in Order

Hope Hospice

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., He regularly cares for his elderly parents, but this time he sought guidance about relatives who live out of state—a couple in their 40s, both of whom were diagnosed with COVID-19.

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Top Family Caregiver Mistakes:  Part 1.5; Not having healthcare, financial, and legal affairs in order

Hope Hospice

Not having healthcare, financial, and legal affairs in order. Second, this unprecedented medical and societal devastation shines a light on the importance of being certain that healthcare, financial, and legal affairs are in order, regardless of your age. To complicate matters, the couple did not live in a community property state.