Our Healthcare Advance Directives Preference

Posted on June 15, 2024 by Hawkins Elder Law.

What is a living will’s purpose, and does it serve that purpose well? In this article, we’ll explain living wills and why the reasons behind our healthcare advance directives preference.

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Hoosier Hospitals Should Stop Asking Patients about Living Wills

Posted on March 19, 2017 by Hawkins Elder Law.

Employees of many Hoosier hospitals ask patients the same question during the admission process every day, “Do you have a living will?” This may surprise people, but a patient’s answer to that question does not matter because when a living will arrives at the hospital, it is “dead on arrival.” This article explains why Indiana’s […]

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Indiana’s New and Improved POST Form

Posted on January 5, 2017 by Hawkins Elder Law.

[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] The Indiana State Department of health (ISDH) updated and improved the Indiana Physicians Orders for Scope of Treatment (POST) form in December 2016. The new form is available for download in PDF and Microsoft Word formats at http://www.in.gov/isdh/25880.htm,  and it should be available in the […]

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Indiana Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment

Posted on December 6, 2014 by Hawkins Elder Law.

[See our Disclaimers page about relying on this website’s contents.] What scares you most about growing old and dying? Everyone may answer the question differently, but a common theme we find among clients is the fear of being so disabled at the end of life that a person cannot participate in his or her final […]

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