📋 What is a Living Will, and How Do You Make One? (AARP Article)

"Her living will takes over now,” the nurse practitioner said the morning after my mother slipped into a coma.

 

I was 51 weeks into 24-hours-a-day caregiving, which included constant decision-making about hospital, rehab and nursing facility admissions, as well as readjustments of medication and treatment plans — without a break. Practically every day of caregiving held life-or-death choices.