Esther Has a Living Will
and Other Fairy Tales for Adult Children
The Essential Health Care Preparedness Guide
for Adult Children of Aging Parents, including the 2010 Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act
Where do adult children get help regarding health care of aging parents? They are invisible in geriatric health care and an underutilized resource for health care practitioners. With information about how and why medical care is delivered to aging parents, adult children can become partners in health care. Written by an attorney and bioethics consultant, Esther Has a Living Will:
- Facilitates inter-generational health care planning
- Distills complex legal and medical information into a single, easy-to-read volume
- Familiarizes adult children with topics such as patient autonomy, advance directives, medical privacy, informed consent, capacity, guardianship, surrogate decision-making, palliative care, and end-of-life issues
- Presents case studies as fairy tales to create human interest stories
- Includes hospital and federally-required forms encountered during a hospital stay
- Provides resource for conflict resolution, diversity accommodation, and limitations of adult children’s authority
- Includes worksheet (mihealth stats) to create a patient profile for family members.*
ISBN: 978-0-9826123-0-9
Brenda L. Barnes
splash’em LLC
Purchase Esther Has a Living Will and Other Fairy Tales for Adult Children at amazon.com, bn.com, and indiebound.org.
*digital version of mihealth stats available for iphone at itunes.
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