Healthcare providers generally are required to have an adult patient’s consent before they can administer any type of medical care, which raises the question: Who has the authority under Utah state ...

Although the evidence base in geriatric oncology is expanding, oncologists must continue to make treatment decisions under considerable uncertainty. Our decision framework helps optimize decision ...

FAIR Health is launching a new website this week aimed at informing older adults and their caregivers about treatment options, including tools related to cost, quality, and shared decision-making.

There’s a new tool to help gauge the decision-making ability of older adults regarding a range of risks, from financial exploitation to self-neglect. The interview for decisional abilities, developed ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEW ORLEANS — Providers should take a shared decision-making approach when creating a nutrition plan for people ...

In general, all adults, regardless of diagnosis or condition, should be presumed competent to consent to participation in research unless there is evidence of serious disability that would impair ...

There are freedoms many people enjoy every day without thinking twice about them: driving a car, choosing a job, living where they want, voting or getting married. But for adults living with ...

You know the conventional wisdom: Adolescents are impulsive by nature, like bombs ready to go off at the most minor trigger. Parents feel they must cross their fingers and hope no one lights the fuse ...

Mice moving tiny steering wheels to control shapes on a screen have given scientists an unprecedented view of how decisions unfold across the brain. For the first time, researchers have mapped ...