Eight Advance Care Planning Lessons that Took Me 30 Years to Learn

Charlie Sabatino, director of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging since 1984, has a new article in the Senior Lawyers Division magazine EXPERIENCE, titled "Eight Advance Care Planning Lessons that Took Me 30 Years to Learn."  While full text is for members only, here are the subheadings of the 8 lessons:

1. Most Advance Directives Aren't Worth the Paper on Which They Are Written


2. The Only Real Legal Task of Advance Care Planning Is Appointing and Informing a Healthcare Agent


3. Ambivalence Is Our Middle Name


4. Advance Care Planning Has Stages


5. The Best Trait in a Healthcare Agent A Drive to Relentlessly Research


6. An Advance Directive Does Not Equal a Plan of Care


7. Good Advance Care Planning Requires More Than Just Better Education--It Requires System Change


8. Lawyers Will Continue to Have an Important, Though Changed, Role in Advance Care Planning