Advance Directives Case Studies

Advance Directives Case Studies

Case Study 1 – When is it too soon to honor a living will? When does your health care agent have the authority to make your medical decisions?

Case Study 2 – How do you handle after-death choices? (Organ/tissue donations, autopsy, burial, cremation)

You can also test your knowledge of Advance Directives for Health Care. Take the Quiz for Health Care Advance Directives.

View additional case studies related to estate planning.

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Investing Unit 10: Getting Help


 


 

Advance Directives Case Study 1

Return to the Communicate Your Advance Directives for Health Care learning lesson.

Contents

Investing Unit 10: Investing on Your Own


 


 

Small Steps to Health and Wealth



Small Steps to Health and Wealth logoSmall Steps to Health and Wealth™ (SSHW) encourages participants to make positive behavior changes to simultaneously improve their health and personal finances. The Web site includes 36 fact sheets that describe linkages between health and personal finances and 25 specific behavior change strategies for better health and increased wealth. Users can also register online to set personal health and wealth goals and periodically report their progress. In addition, there is a narrated PowerPoint presentation about improving health and increasing wealth …

Investing Unit 10: Selecting Your Team of Financial Professionals


 


 

Investing Unit 11: Investment Fraud


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Information is an investor’s best tool when it comes to investing wisely and avoiding …

The Risk / Rate-Of-Return Relationship

Generally speaking, risk and rate-of-return are directly related. As the risk level of an investment increases, the potential return usually increases as well. The pyramid of investment risk illustrates the risk and return associated with various types of investment options. As investors move up the pyramid, they incur a greater risk of loss of principal along with the potential for higher returns.

Pyramid of Investment Risk
Pyramid of Investment Risk


Source: National Institute for Consumer Education, 1998

Archived Monthly Investing Messages


 


 

Investing For Your Future

Monthly IFYF Investment Message Archive

IFYF Action Steps


  • Introduction
  • Unit 1: Basic Building Blocks of Successful Financial Management
  • Unit 2: Investing Basics
  • Unit 3: Finding Money to Invest
  • Unit 4: Ownership Investments
  • Unit 5: Fixed-Income Investing
  • Unit 6: Mutual Fund Investing
  • Unit 7: Tax-Deferred Investments
  • Unit 8: Investing Small Dollar Amounts
  • Unit 9: Getting Help: Investing Resources
  • Unit 10: Selecting Financial Professionals
  • Unit 11: Investment Fraud

 


 

  • Study Guide
  • Action Steps
  • Monthly Investment Messages
  • Glossary

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