“Alzheimer’s? Your Paperwork May Not Be in Order”

link to article:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/well/live/an-advance-directive-for-patients-with-dementia.html

“...Advanced dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, is the sixth leading cause of death overall in the United States. It is the fifth leading cause for people over 65, and the third for those over 85. Yet once the disease approaches its terminal stages, patients are unable to communicate their desires for or against life-prolonging therapies, some of which can actually make their last days more painful and hasten their demise.

End of Life Choices New York is trying to change that and has created an advance directive that it hopes will become a prototype for the rest of the country. (Washington State has already developed its own, though somewhat different, document.)...”