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Advance Care Planning A Guide For Patients and Families

Advance Care Planning A Guide For Patients and Families. What is Advance Care Planning?. Advance Care Planning is: A process of planning for future medical care in case you are unable to make your own decisions. What is Advance Care Planning?. Advance Care Planning is:

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Advance Care Planning A Guide For Patients and Families

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  1. Advance Care Planning A Guide For Patients and Families

  2. What is Advance Care Planning? • Advance Care Planning is: • A process of planning for future medical care in case you are unable to make your own decisions.

  3. What is Advance Care Planning? • Advance Care Planning is: • A continual process and not merely a document or isolated event. • May include the use of Advance Directives (legal documents that state an individual’s preferences in care for life-threatening illness).

  4. Types of Advance Directives • Health Care Proxy • Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) • Living Will • Durable Power of Attorney (DPOA) • Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (MOLST)

  5. What is a Health Care Proxy? • A document in which a patient with decision-making capacity appoints a health care agent to make decisions about medical care in the event that the patient subsequently becomes incapable of making those decisions.

  6. What is a DNR? • A Do Not Resuscitate document is a legal document that states resuscitation should not be attempted if a person suffers cardiac or respiratory arrest.

  7. What is a Living Will? • A document in which a person with decision-making capacity expresses his/her wishes to receive or not receive certain life-sustaining treatments in the event that he/she becomes terminally ill and loses decision-making capacity in the future.

  8. What is a Durable Power of Attorney? • A legal document empowering a designated person to act on another person's behalf. • DPOAs allow an individual to transfer medical decision-making authority to another in the event that the individual loses the ability to make these decisions.

  9. What is a MOLST? • A Medical Orders For Life-Sustaining Treatment form is used for those who are seriously ill or at the end of their lives. It is used to translate patient/resident goals and preferences into medical orders.

  10. Benefits of Advance Care Planning • Advance Care Planning: • Assists you in preparing for a sudden unexpected illness. • Allows you to maintain control over how you are treated. • Ensures that you experience the type of care that you desire.

  11. For more information, visit www.compassionandsupport.org or https://www.prepareforyourcare.org/

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