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    Advance directives are legal documents that specify a person's wishes for medical treatment if they become unable to make decisions for themselves due to illness or incapacity. They can appoint a health care proxy to make decisions and guide doctors on procedures like life support, organ donation, or pain management. Advance directives were created to address deficiencies in end-of-life care and prevent unnecessary prolonging of life. Common forms include living wills, healthcare proxies, and powers of attorney. A living will specifies treatment preferences if death is imminent from a terminal condition. A healthcare proxy appoints an agent to make healthcare decisions. A power of attorney authorizes representation in legal and financial matters.

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    Advance directives are legal documents that specify a person's wishes for medical treatment if they become unable to make decisions for themselves due to illness or incapacity. They can appoint a health care proxy to make decisions and guide doctors on procedures like life support, organ donation, or pain management. Advance directives were created to address deficiencies in end-of-life care and prevent unnecessary prolonging of life. Common forms include living wills, healthcare proxies, and powers of attorney. A living will specifies treatment preferences if death is imminent from a terminal condition. A healthcare proxy appoints an agent to make healthcare decisions. A power of attorney authorizes representation in legal and financial matters.

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    Advance directives are legal documents that specify a person's wishes for medical treatment if they become unable to make decisions for themselves due to illness or incapacity. They can appoint a health care proxy to make decisions and guide doctors on procedures like life support, organ donation, or pain management. Advance directives were created to address deficiencies in end-of-life care and prevent unnecessary prolonging of life. Common forms include living wills, healthcare proxies, and powers of attorney. A living will specifies treatment preferences if death is imminent from a terminal condition. A healthcare proxy appoints an agent to make healthcare decisions. A power of attorney authorizes representation in legal and financial matters.

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    Advnce Directive A

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    Advance directives are legal documents that specify a person's wishes for medical treatment if they become unable to make decisions for themselves due to illness or incapacity. They can appoint a health care proxy to make decisions and guide doctors on procedures like life support, organ donation, or pain management. Advance directives were created to address deficiencies in end-of-life care and prevent unnecessary prolonging of life. Common forms include living wills, healthcare proxies, and powers of attorney. A living will specifies treatment preferences if death is imminent from a terminal condition. A healthcare proxy appoints an agent to make healthcare decisions. A power of attorney authorizes representation in legal and financial matters.

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    ADVANCE DIRECTIVES

    ADVANCE DIRECTIVES : DEFINITIO


    Is a legal document in which a person specifies
    what actions should be taken For their health
    if they are no longer able to make decisions
    for themselves Because of illness
    or incapacity
    ADVANCE DIRECTIVES : USES
    Appointment of health care
    proxy
    Make decision and guide doctors
    about life sustaining procedures
    in the event of terminal
    condition, persistent vegetative
    state and end stage condition i.e
    DNR, Pain management, Organ
    Donation, Euthanasia
    ADVANCE DIRECTIVES :
    BACKGROUND
     Advance directives were created in
    response to the increasing sophistication
    and prevalence of medical technology. Of
    U.S death , 25%-55% occur in health care
    facilities. Numerous studies have
    documented critical deficits in the medical
    care of the dying. Is has been found to be
    unnecessarily prolonged, painful,
    expensive, and emotionally burdensome to
    both patients and their families.
    ADVANCE DIREVTIVES :
    FORMS
    1. Living will
    2. Healthcare proxy
    3. Power of attorney
    LIVING WILL
    A living will is a more limited
    type of advance directive
    because you only make decisions
    about life sustaining procedure
    in the event that your death
    from a terminal conditions is
    imminent
    HEALTH CARE PROXY
    Is a document ( legal
    instrument) with which a
    patient appoints an agent to
    legally make health care
    decisions on behalf of the
    patient, when he or she is
    incapable of making and
    executing healthcare decisions
    stipulated in the proxy
    POWER OF ATTORNEY
     Written authorization to represent
    or act on another ‘s behalf if private
    affairs, business, or some other legal
    matter, sometimes against the
    wishes of the other.
     Not limited to healthcare but also
    other matters, such as finance
    ADVANCE DIREVTIVES :
    ADVANTAGE
     Unnecessarily prolonged painful
    hospitalization
     Prevents unnecessary prolonged
    comatose or vegetative state
     Prevents burden of rising Medical
    costs
     Releases responsibility of love ones
    of difficult decisions
    ADVANCE DIRECTIVES :
    DISADVANTAGES
     Family or loved ones may disagree with
    your medical decisions
     Difficulty in predicting what treatments
    will be available and preferred in a
    “future” crisis
     Uncertainty over who can/should be a
    health care agent, especially for
    individuals without available (or willing)
    family
    FIVE WISHES
    FIVE WISHES
    1. Wish 1 : The person I want to make care decisions
    for me when I can’t – this section is an assignment
    of a health care agent
    2. Wish 2 : The kind of medical treatment I want or
    Don’t want - this section is a living will – e.g DNR
    3. Wish 3 : how comfortable I want to be –Addresses
    matters of comfort care – paint management,
    personal grooming and bathing instructions,
    among others.
    FIVE WISHES
    4. Wish 4 : How I want people treat me –
    Personal matters, such as whether you would like
    to be at home, whether you would like someone to
    pray at you bedside, among others
    5. Wish 5 : what I want My Love ones to know –
    Matters of forgiveness, how you wish to be
    remembered, and finals wishes regarding of
    memorial plans.
    ETHICAL QUESTIONS (ASK YOURSELF)
    1 . Would you rather make your own life/death
    situation decisions via A.D or let your loved ones do
    the decision making ?

    2. If you are the medical proxy of your comatose


    mother would you have the strength to obey their
    advance Directives if it stated to turn of the
    respirator to ease their suffering ?

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