Jacob is only 52 years old, but has decided to create a living will that he will share with his family and health-care professionals. He is encouraginghis friends to do the same, citing a recent study found that advance care planning was associated with all of the following except:

A. decreased quality of care at the end of life.
B. decrease in life-sustaining treatment.
C. decrease in hospital use.
D. increase in hospice use.

What are objects called that have value in and of themselves as well as value as a means of exchange? custom commodity money currency simple money

Hilard and clint are seeing a therapist for their sexual difficulties. their homework assignment this week is to caress each other while communicating what is pleasurable to each of them, and to avoid setting any performance goals. this is called the exercise.

Which of the following methods could be considered a "best practice" in terms of informing respondents how their answers to an on-line survey about personal information will be protected? respondents are informed that investigators will try to keep their participation confidential; however, confidentiality cannot be assured. respondents are informed that a research assistant will transfer all the research data to a password-protected computer that is not connected to the internet, via a usb flashdrive. the computer is located in a research team member's office. the investigator uses the informed consent process to explain her institution's method for guaranteeing absolute confidentiality of research data. the investigator uses the informed consent process to explain how respondent data will be transmitted from the website to his encrypted database without ever recording respondents' ip addresses, but explains that on the internet confidentiality cannot be absolutely guaranteed. the investigator uses the informed consent process to explain how respondent data will be transmitted from the website to his encrypted database without ever recording respondents' ip addresses, but explains that on the internet confidentiality cannot be absolutely guaranteed