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  • 3 - Information That Will Help You with Advance Planning for Your Health Care

  • Edited by Thomasine Kushner
  • Book:
    Surviving Health Care
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    29 March 2010, pp 26-45

  • Summary

    At some point in our lives, most of us have to make decisions about our health care. Some of these decisions are relatively simple and straightforward. One reason for advance planning is the very real possibility that we may one day lack the capacity to make health care decisions for ourself. Another reason for advance planning is to minimize the burden on our loved ones. Advance directives are instruments by which we can formally specify in writing our preferences regarding health care decision making if and when we lose our ability to decide for ourself. Instruction directives give general guidelines and/or specific instructions for decision making about your health care in the event we can't decide for ourself. A proxy directive designates a surrogate to make decisions for us if we no longer can do so.