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Advance Directive A legal document expressing a person's medical wishes in the event of his/her mental or physical incapacity. An advance directive is made while the director is still competent, and comes into effect at incapacity. An advance directive may state whether or not the director wishes to be placed on life support or to receive a particular treatment. It may or may not assign another party ? usually a family member ? to make these decisions as they come up. It is important to note that in this situation, an advance directive is not a power of attorney and neither allows the other party access to the assignor's finances, nor obliges him/her to pay for any treatment. See also: Proxy directive. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Thomas, The Senior's Guide To End-Of-Life
Issues: Advance Directives, Wills, Funerals And Cremations offers an
especially "reader friendly" commentary and advice to
understanding of the entire process of preparing for the financial,
legal, and ceremonial aspects death, as well as the more practical
considerations when dealing with the loss of loved ones, and one's
own demise. They rose to the challenge of change,
providing valuable consultative and educational assistance with issues
such as living wills, advance directives and hospice care. Perhaps even more
likely to raise a ruckus is the council's pronounced skepticism of
the value of advance directives when decisions must be made about
whether to accept or refuse treatment on behalf of an incapacitated
patient. |
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