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Geriatrics Resources on the Net

Richard Peters, MD, PhD; Robert Sikorski, MD, PhD

JAMA. 1997;278(16):1299-1300.

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An elderly couple comes to the clinic for a routine visit and to receive their annual influenza vaccinations. The man has congestive heart failure with poor systolic function; his condition is stable on current medications. His wife has had 2 vertebral compression fractures but is otherwise healthy. The couple tells the physician seeing them that they want to give each other the authority to make medical decisions in the event one of them becomes incapacitated, and they ask for help infilling out a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care form. The physicianprovides some basic advice, gives the couple 2 standard forms, and asks if they spend any time on the Internet. Learning that the couple regularly uses e-mail to communicate with relatives and increasingly explores the World Wide Web, the physician suggests several sites providing information about the health care proxy process. He also asks the couple to bring . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston (Dr Peters; e-mail: rhp@solvig.med.harvard.edu); and the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md (Dr Sikorski; e-mail: rss@nhgri.nih.gov).

Footnotes
Edited by William M, Silberg, Editorial Director, New Media Office, AMA Scientific Information and Multimedia Group.

Mention of a Web site, company, or product in this article does not imply endorsement by the authors, editors, JAMA, or the American Medical Association. All of the Web addresses listed in this article were active and accurate at the time of publication. However, because of technical considerations and other factors, links may change or become inactive.

The full text of this article can be found on the JAMA Web site (http://www.ama-assn.org/jama). Additional resources can be found in the NetSight Add-on column established on the Medsite Navigator Web site (http:// www.MedsiteNavigator.com) as an adjunct to the NetSight column available on the JAMA site.

Corresponding author: Richard Peters, MD, PhD, Department of Medicine, Wang Building, ACC-108, Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114.

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