"This videotape gives medical caregivers, clergy, laypersons, and patients an in-depth understanding of advance directives. It features Henry S. Perkins, M. D., Associate Professor of medical Ethics at the University of ...

The emphasis in this video program and the interactive workbook is on the health care proxy and the good communication and trust necessary to share your own wishes for health care and for your health care proxy to ask ...

Three situations are depicted in which the potential exists for older persons to lose control over decisions that are important for their later years. The scenarios occur in the hospital, at home, and at a beach house. ...

The drama features discussions between family members about health care decisions, advance directives, and surrogate decision making, and is patient oriented.

Advance directives should be completed by patients when they are healthy to preserve the right of patients to make decisions about health care and "when to use or not use high technology." William Colby speaks on the Nancy ...

New York City physician Russell Kellogg offers guidelines for health care personnel in talking to the elderly about their views on advance directives and the kind of care they might wish to receive near the end of life. ...

The film depicts two ``allowing to die'' situations, and goes on to urge everyone to consider and to prepare living wills and to name surrogates to make health care decision. A small seven page booklet accompanies this ...

The film is directed to patient viewing and speaks to the issue of planning for future health care decisions. At the conclusion of the film, ethicist Ruth Macklin discusses the options for planning. Accompanying the video ...

"Talking with patients about the dying process and the use of life-sustaining technology can be emotionally challenging for all concerned. Helping patients to participate in planning for future health care crises, including ...

The video program discusses ethical questions in medicine related to physician-patient relations, right to die, assisted suicide, and advance directives [information taken from OCLC record]. A medical directive is referred ...