Advance Health Care Directive

With an Advance Health Care Directive, your personal healthcare choices and your living will are combined into a single comprehensive estate planning document.

An Advance Health Care Directive is a simple legally-binding document indicating your wishes regarding medical care if you can't express those wishes. Additionally, the form authorizes someone to make medical decisions on your behalf if the situation calls for it. Without an Advance Health Directive, medical staff will rely on your closest relatives to make decisions about your care.

In short, an Advance Health Care Directive is a chance to decide on your medical treatment in advance and make a plan about what type of treatment you do and do not consent to in the event of a life-threatening situation. It fulfills a similar need as a living will, and the two terms are used interchangeably in some states.

Depending on your state, an Advance Health Care Directive may also be known as:

• Living Will

• Advance Decision Form

• Advance Directive

• Advance Medical Directive

• Medical Power of Attorney and Living Will

To create your document, please provide:

• Governing State: The state where the Advance Health Care Directive will be executed.

• Personal Information: Your full name and address.

• Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care: Select if you have previously granted someone medical power of attorney. If not, you'll be asked if you want to designate a health care agent in this form.

• Health Care Agent: The full name and address and contact information for the person appointed to be your health care agent as well as alternate health care agents, if any.

• Extent of Decision-Making Authority: Specify any limitations you wish to place on your health care agents' decision-making authority.

• Living Will: Choose under what circumstances you want to receive life-sustaining treatment or whether you want the decision to rest with your authorized agent.

• Additional Directives: Describe any additional directives you wish to add, such as do-not-resuscitate orders or other people with whom treatment must be discussed.

• Original Version and Copies: Where the original copy of the Advance Health Care Directive will be kept and any copies' location.

• Date: The effective date of the document and County where it is executed.
  
  

**Please allow up 24-48 hours for your document to be completed.**