Accommodating Holistic Health Practices in Estate Planning Documents
1h 4m
Created on June 27, 2025
Intermediate
Overview
A significant percentage of adults and children in the U.S. rely on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), yet these healthcare preferences are often excluded from legal documents like living wills and health care proxies. This CLE program, led by Dr. Patricia Wilhite McCartney, JD, ND, DAN, explores how attorneys can help clients preserve their rights to holistic and integrative treatments through thoughtful legal planning.
Designed for estate planners, elder law attorneys, and general practitioners, the course provides practical tools for incorporating CAM into advanced directives and other planning instruments. Through legal insights and real-world case studies, attorneys will learn how to align legal documents with the full spectrum of their clients' healthcare values.
Learning Objectives:
Analyze legal considerations involved in incorporating CAM into health and estate planning
Identify common gaps in traditional advanced planning documents that may exclude CAM preferences
Apply practical strategies for drafting CAM-inclusive living wills and healthcare directives
Evaluate real-world examples that illustrate the benefits of CAM integration
Examine emerging trends at the intersection of law and holistic healthcare
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Recent Reviews
Very informative and interesting!
Good video
This was very informative about an area that I had not considered in relation to Estate Planning.
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