Living Wills
Does a family member need to sign to withdraw life support?
Does a family member have to sign to remove a relative from life support
Can we choose a nursing home for my father with dementia?
My father is 85 years old. We live in Southeast Michigan. We recently put him into an assisted living home. We will be paying for it with his social security money, and the benefits he gets from Aid and Attendance from being a World War II veteran. We moved him to this nursing home because he can no longer physically take care of himself. It will slowly drain his and my mother's expenses. However, it is the only logical way we can think of to keep them together. Now I believe a new problem is setting in. It is my opinion that he is beginning to show strong signs of dementia. It would not make much sense to drain their expenses in an assisted living home when he doesn't have memory of it. However, we have heard many horror stories about Medicaid nursing homes and the type of care they provide. My parents have their social security income (about $1950.00 per month), and $40,000 to $45,000 in savings left. My thought is that my father gets increasingly worse, the best thing to do would to be him to go to a nursing home, and have my mother live with my sister. If we considered this, is there any way we could have a say in which nursing home he has to live in?
Do Guardian conduct laws also apply to Health Surrogates?
Do laws pertaining to the conduct of a Guardian towards their Ward also apply to the Health Surrogate?
How long must a patient on life support remain before removal in Pennsylvania?
Does a person who is on life support who resides in the state of Pennsylvania and is in a Pennsylvania hospital have a specific number of days they must remain on life support before the hospital can remove the life-support machine? This patient does not have a living will or last will/testament.
What does artificial nourishment mean in a living will?
What is considered 'artificial nourishment' in regard to a living will?