Webinar Series

The Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act was promulgated by the Uniform Law Commission in 2023, updating a previous act from 1993. The new Act reflects substantial changes in how health care is delivered, increases in non-traditional familial relationships and living arrangements, the proliferation of the use of electronic documents, the growing use of separate advance directives exclusively for mental health care, and other recent developments. Nora Winkelman, Chair of the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act Drafting Committee, will moderate a lively discussion of the key elements of the Act and how it affects the execution and implementation of advance directives as well as its practical impacts on how care is delivered when these instruments are utilized with our panelists: Nina Kohn, Reporter for the Act’s drafting committee; David English, Observer and Reporter for the 1993 Act; Beth Russo, Director of Government Affairs, AARP; and Stephanie Anderson, Executive Director of C-TAC Innovations.