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29 March 2024

Most baby boomers don't have living wills

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By AP

Many baby boomers don't have end-of-life legal documents such as a living will and some say it's because they don't want to dwell on death.<

An Associated Press-LifeGoesStrong.com poll found that 64 percent of boomers say they don't have a health care proxy or living will.

The living will spells out a patient's wishes for medical care if he or she is unable to communicate with doctors. The health care proxy allows an individual to select a person he or she trusts to make decisions about medical care should the patient become incapacitated.

Advocates point to the Florida family fight over Terri Schiavo as a smart reason to draft the documents. Her feeding tube was ordered removed in 2005 after years of courtroom battles between her husband and parents.

The latest installment in Aging America, a joint AP-APME project looking at the aging of the baby boomers and the impact this so-called silver tsunami will have on the communities in which they live.