CONWAY — Many make New Year Resolutions to exercise, eat better or break bad habits. But Visiting Nurse Home Care and Hospice of Carroll County and Western Maine has another suggestion for 2023 — create an advance care directive, or review and update directives you created in the past. It’s a great way to bring peace of mind in the new year.

All adults should discuss and document their health-care wishes in the event of a crisis. Accidents and acute illness can happen to anyone at any time, but far too few adults have done anything to plan ahead. Various studies suggest that only about a quarter of all adults have engaged in advance care planning.

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