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Actually, I was wondering about this as well. The 2008 Advance Directives and Advance Care Planning report to Congress identified "people with disabilities" as a population vulnerable to less medical facilitation of end of life discussions. (This is not to say that Deaf or deaf or HoH are 'disabled;' nor to say that they are not. That is not the scope of this queery, nor in my estimate is it within the scope of the original). Merely to raise the question: are non-hearing patients more or less likely to be approached by their doctors regarding Advance Directives in comparison to hearing patients? Coop, did you find any answer to your question?

[QUOTE="teamint, post: 2050377, member: 60001"] Actually, I was wondering about this as well. The 2008 Advance Directives and Advance Care Planning report to Congress identified "people with disabilities" as a population vulnerable to less medical facilitation of end of life discussions. (This is not to say that Deaf or deaf or HoH are 'disabled;' nor to say that they are not. That is not the scope of this queery, nor in my estimate is it within the scope of the original). Merely to raise the question: are non-hearing patients more or less likely to be approached by their doctors regarding Advance Directives in comparison to hearing patients? Coop, did you find any answer to your question? [/QUOTE]

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