Amid the growing COVID-19 pandemic, leaders with MyDirectives are urging Americans to create an advance care plan and share it with their loved ones. With a strain on the U.S. healthcare system and doctors left to make decisions for people with little to no background on the patient, MyDirectives leaders hope people use this time… Continue reading Medical Directive Leaders Urge the Public to Create a Plan Amid COVID-19
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End-of-life Decision-Making for People with Intellectual Disabilities
A 2017 study by researchers at the University at Buffalo and published in the Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities provides a groundbreaking look at how advance care planning medical orders inform emergency medical service (EMS) providers’ experiences involving people with intellectual disabilities. A release from the university explains that most states in the… Continue reading End-of-life Decision-Making for People with Intellectual Disabilities