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  2. What Is a Living Will and Do I Need One? - Healthline

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    A living will is a written, legal document. It provides instructions for your medical care, or for the termination of medical support, in certain circumstances.

  3. What Is a Health Care Agent? - WebMD

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    Health care agents play a key role in end-of-life planning. Find out from WebMD what they are, how they can help, and how to choose one.

  4. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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    A living will is one form of advance directive, leaving instructions for treatment. Another form is a specific type of power of attorney or health care proxy, in which the person authorizes someone (an agent) to make decisions on their behalf when they are incapacitated.

  5. Five Wishes - Wikipedia

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    Five Wishes was originally introduced in 1996 as a Florida-only document, [2] combining a living will and health care power of attorney in addition to addressing matters of comfort care and spirituality. With help from the American Bar Association 's Commission on Law and Aging and leading medical experts, a national version of Five Wishes was introduced in 1998. [3] It was originally ...

  6. Healthcare proxy - Wikipedia

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    Healthcare proxy. In the field of medicine, a healthcare proxy (commonly referred to as HCP) is a document (legal instrument) with which a patient (primary individual) appoints an agent to legally make healthcare decisions on behalf of the patient, when the patient is incapable of making and executing the healthcare decisions stipulated in the ...

  7. How to Plan for End-of-Life Care - WebMD

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    The first is a living will, which tells doctors what kind of care you want to get at the end of your life. The second is called a health care power of attorney, which names your health care agent.

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