April was Advance Care Planning Month. Massachusetts Department of Public Health appealed to clinicians to ask all adults, ...

If you have a child over 18, have they appointed a health care proxy? Should it be you? Shawnee Baker hopes you consider this: In 2018, her 19-year-old daughter Baylie Grogan was a conscientious ...

Do you know who would be your health care proxy or durable power of attorney for health care if you couldn’t make decisions for yourself? Do you know if you have an advance directive in place?

I didn’t understand the importance of having an official health care proxy and discussing how I want my medical care to be handled if I become unable to make decisions on my own. I did not know ...

It can help to have a health care proxy (also called a medical power of attorney) even as young as age 18. "Once someone turns 18, they become a legal adult, and the parents don't have the right ...