Health and Fitness

Study: Advance Directives Are About More Than Refusing Care

Younger people who fill out document request interventions


A new study from DePaul University finds that nearly a third of people who fill out advance health care directives — documents that lay out a patient’s wishes for end of life care — request medical interventions. The research explores the choices people make in advance directives, where they store the documents and with whom they discuss their plans. (Image by iStock)

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)—September 29, 2015. A…

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