Include Healthcare Power of Attorney or Proxy, Living Will, Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) to guide healthcare decision-making if a person is unable to make or express decisions on his or her own behalf.
A legal document that states your wishes about health care choices or names someone else to make those choices if you become unable to do so. An advance directive can be simple or complex. In other words, it can be general with little direction about care, or it can be very specific, detailing your wishes regarding acceptance or refusal of all types of life-sustaining treatments. The advance directive may also include a statement about organ and tissue donation.
A written statement of an individual's preferences and directions regarding health care. Advanced Directives protect your rights even if you become mentally or physically unable to choose or communicate your wishes. They provide a means to appoint an agent to make health care decisions if the principal becomes unable. A Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care are two examples of Advanced Directives.
Legal documents that state an individual's preferences to select the aggressiveness of supportive care in life-threatening illness.
A written statement of an individual's preferences and directions regarding health care. Advanced Directives protect a person's rights even if he or she becomes mentally or physically unable to choose or communicate his or her wishes.
statements by people specifying the type of care they wish to receive when they are terminally ill in the event that they are incapable of expressing their wishes at that time.