Legal Issues for Caregivers: Pathways to Effective Communication For Healthcare Providers and Caregivers

Contents include helpful tips surrounding questions to ask at appointments and ways to record information from healthcare providers, and legal issues relevant to care providers including: 

• Appealing a decision to discharge someone from the hospital.

• HIPAA: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

• Advance health care directives

• Your right to have an interpreter present

• The Caregiver Advise, Record, Enable (CARE) Act