Group items tagged

The chilling dilemma of "the unbefriended elderly," who don't have family or close friends to make medical decisions on their behalf if they can't speak for themselves, generated a bunch of ideas the last time we discussed it. "I would much rather pay a professional, whom I get to know and who knows me, to make the decisions," she wrote. "That way it is an objective decision-maker based on the priorities I have discussed with him/her before my incapacitation." Elizabeth, it turns out other people have been thinking the same way.