Advance directives are legally recognized documents that specify care if a person is incapacitated. They can confirm that a patient doesn’t want to be resuscitated or kept on mechanical life support, such as a ventilator or feeding tube, if they have a terminal condition from which they’re not likely to recover. The National Review had an

The Daily Beast had an article on a new study that shows how loss of quality sleep may contribute to the cause of Alzheimer’s disease.  According to researchers at the University of California Berkeley, disturbed sleep may contribute to the development of dementia. The study, performed at the university’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory, relied on