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American Family Physician
October 1, 2005
Crane, Wittink & Doukas |
Respecting End-of-Life Treatment Preferences Research suggests that families are the best sources of patients' values and preferences, and that patients will more likely choose a loved one to make future decisions for them than someone who might best articulate their wishes.   |
Financial Advisor
May 2006
Karen DeMasters |
Life Decisions Among financial planners and estate consultants, conversations with clients about such issues of living wills, medical directives and medical powers of attorney, the consequences each of these might have for long-term care and estate planning, are becoming increasingly important. |
Financial Advisor
April 2008
Gail Liberman |
Power Of Attorney: A Can Of Worms? As the population ages, a power of attorney is becoming a more critical element to any client's financial plan. But this document can be riddled with pitfalls. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2012
Deena Katz |
Final Decisions Before advising clients about estate planning issues, particularly end-of-life concerns, think about the advance directives commonly recommended to clients. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2007
Martin M. Shenkman |
Estate Planning: The Great Powers You may think that powers of attorney are simple, but once you have to use them that may not be the case. |
Financial Planning
February 1, 2011
John Knowlton |
The Power of a POA Convincing your clients to see a lawyer and do the paperwork to designate a power of attorney may not be a financial planner's first responsibility, but it is an important one. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2010
Martin Shenkman |
Aging Matters An important point for estate planners to remember is that among individuals over age 85, about half have some form of cognitive impairment. This is extremely important to your clients, their families and you. |
Managed Care
May 2002
David Humiston & Stephen M. Crane |
Will Your State's Privacy Law Be Superseded by HIPAA? Careful interpretation required: Health plans operating in multiple states have a challenge sorting out where the federal law trumps state statutes |
Financial Advisor
August 2010
Lori K. Murphy |
Easing The Stress Here's how financial advisors and estate planners can work together to help those with mentally impaired family members. |
American Family Physician
June 15, 2006 |
Mental Retardation: What Caregivers Need to Know A caregiver's guide: What should I do about doctor visits for a person with mental retardation?... What if a person with mental retardation is hurt or acts strangely?... Who should make medical decisions for a person with mental retardation?... etc. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2005
Dayana Yochim |
A Silver Lining in the Schiavo Story The Florida woman's plight can help your family avoid adding trauma to tragedy. Verbal contracts are not binding if other parties are involved... and that's why you need a few important documents. |
Nursing Management
April 2010
Lisa A. Gallagher |
Revisiting HIPAA The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 Privacy and Security Rules have been in effect since 2002-03. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Gresham & Gresham |
Preparing for the End The family dispute and subsequent legal battle in the Schiavo case was ignited by the lack of written advance directives. Clearly, here is a place astute financial advisors can help protect their clients from unnecessary emotional and financial pain. |
American Journal of Nursing
January 2010 |
Life-Support Interventions at the End of Life: Unintended Consequences Nurses need to be knowledgeable life-support interventions at the end of life and able to communicate what they know about those consequences to patients, family members, and others on the health care team, leading to better decision making at this difficult time. |
American Family Physician
August 15, 2004
Lang & Quill |
Making Decisions with Families at the End of Life Because advance directives are not yet the norm, end-of-life decisions for patients without medical decision-making capacity are made regularly within discussions between the patient's physician and family. |
The Motley Fool
May 16, 2006
Selena Maranjian |
10 Documents You Shouldn't Live Without Think a will is all you need? Think again: Living will and health-care proxy... Will... Durable power of attorney... Estate plan... etc. |
American Family Physician
February 1, 2005
Searight & Gafford |
Cultural Diversity at the End of Life: Issues and Guidelines for Family Physicians When considering therapeutic options, physicians should consider that members of many cultural groups prefer that family members, rather than patients, make treatment decisions. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2007
Rich Duprey |
7 Scary Documents You Must Have What happens to you, your assets, and your health care in case you can't make the decision? These are the seven most important documents you need to have to protect yourself and your family. |
American Family Physician
October 1, 2000
Richard J. Ackermann |
End-of-life Care Withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining therapies is ethical and medically appropriate in some circumstances. This article summarizes the American Medical Association's Education for Physicians on End-of-life Care curriculum module on withholding or withdrawing therapy... |
Reason
February 2007
RU Sirius |
Our Right to Death How medical breakthroughs challenge easy answers about suicide. Book Review: Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America, by William H. Colby... |
American Family Physician
August 15, 2004 |
End-Of-Life Choices for Families An informational pamphlet for those making end-of-life decisions. |
Managed Care
June 2001
John Carroll |
Speaking the Unspeakable: How Plans Can Deal With the Dying Physicians don't like to discuss end-of-life care. Neither do health plans, fearing it makes them look cold. A few plans are finding innovative ways to do it... |
Managed Care
November 2002
Fox et al. |
HIPAA Modifications Ease Burdens, But Don't Take Anything for Granted Although the final privacy rule in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eases some burdens for managed care organizations and providers, it still significantly restricts the use and disclosure of protected health information. |
BusinessWeek
June 5, 2006
Toddi Gutner |
"License To Steal" From Seniors How to protect the elderly from the people they've chosen to trust. |
Managed Care
June 2002
T. Emmet Thornton |
HIPAA Affects Docs' Response To Subpoenas for Medical Data The Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act of 1996 will supersede state law on medical-record subpoenas in several respects. |
Nursing Management
March 2011
Sibbald et al. |
Tip the SCALE toward quality end-of-life skin care An expert panel was established to formulate a consensus statement on Skin Changes At Life's End (SCALE). |
Managed Care
May 2001 |
New Privacy Rules May Provide Boost For IT Companies For all the whining about HIPAA from providers and payers, there are reports that a growing share of them are beginning to see the value of it in long-term savings... |
The Motley Fool
January 26, 2004 |
Mortality Planning Despite Botox and plastic surgery, you won't live forever. Might as well plan now. |
American Family Physician
December 1, 2000 |
Curbside Consultation A Daughter Estranged from Her Dying Father... |
Investment Advisor
February 1, 2011
Dan Skiles |
Building an Efficient Document Imaging Strategy The good news regarding document imaging and management is that most advisors are already storing some of their documents electronically. The challenge for advisors is making sure that they have the right system in place for their firm. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2005
Joshua Weinberger |
5 Questions An estate planning expert talks about living wills. |
Financial Advisor
July 2005
Bruce W. Fraser |
How To Successfully Select An Estate Planning Attorney In this litigious era, there's reason aplenty for having a formal process in place for selecting an estate planning attorney for your financial planning team and not leaving it, say, to a chance meeting of someone at lunch or a seminar who seems to fit the bill. |
PC Magazine
November 14, 2007
Neil J. Rubenking |
Stripping Out Metadata in Word Want to remove your name and other personal info from a Word document? Here's a simple trick to do just that. |
