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  2. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. An advance healthcare directive, also known as living will, personal directive, advance directive, medical directive or advance decision, 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. In the U.S ...

  3. Institute for Healthcare Advancement - Wikipedia

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    This project was funded through an English literacy and civics education grant from the Louisiana State Department of Education. It has developed easy to use bilingual versions of advance health care directives in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Vietnamese; a Khmer version is being developed.

  4. Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment - Wikipedia

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    POLST ( Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) is an approach to improving end-of-life care in the United States, encouraging providers to speak with the severely ill and create specific medical orders to be honored by health care workers during a medical crisis. [1] POLST began in Oregon in 1991 and currently exists in 46 states ...

  5. Five Wishes - Wikipedia

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    The Five Wishes. Wishes 1 and 2 are both legal documents. Once signed, they meet the legal requirements for an advance directive in the states listed below. Wishes 3, 4, and 5 are unique to Five Wishes, in that they address matters of comfort care, spirituality, forgiveness, and final wishes. Wish 1: "The Person I Want to Make Care Decisions ...

  6. Advance care planning - Wikipedia

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    Advance care planning is a process that enables individuals with decisional mental capacity to make plans about their future health care. [1] Advance care plans provide direction to healthcare professionals when a person is not in a position to make and/or communicate their own healthcare choices. Advance care planning is applicable to adults ...

  7. Advance health care directive - Wikipedia

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    Advance healthcare directive From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.

  8. End-of-life care - Wikipedia

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    An advance healthcare directive is a legal document that either documents a person's decisions about desired treatment or indicates who a person has entrusted to make their care decisions for them. The two main types of advanced directives are a living will and durable power of attorney for healthcare.

  9. Advance Directives: Having the Talk - WebMD

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    Advance directives are legal documents that take effect when someone is no longer able to speak for himself or herself. They include: Living will: a legal document that guides health care ...

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