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It's your right to accept or refuse
medical care. Advance Directives help protect this
right by making your choices known if you become unable
to do so yourself. Advance Directives help your family
by freeing them of the responsibility of having to make
difficult decisions for you.
The types of Advance Directives are:
Directive to Physicians - also known as
a living will. These are written instructions that
explain your wishes for health care if you are unable to
communicate your wishes. For example, you can
limit certain life-prolonging measures when there is
little or no chance of recovery.
Medical Power of Attorney - names a
person to make medical decisions for you if you become
unable to do so .
Out of Hospital Do Not Resuscitate Order
(DNR) - if a health crisis occurs and EMS is called, the
paramedics are generally required to resuscitate and
stabilize patients before they are brought to a
hospital. A DNR will allow EMS personnel to refrain
from doing so.
Click on
Texas and New Mexico Hospice Organization
& go to Forms/Applications to download Texas forms
and instructions
Click on
National
Hospice and Palliative Care Organization & go to
Advance Directives for other states' forms and
instructions |
