Advance Care Planning A Guide For Patients and Families
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Advance Care Planning
A Guide For Patients and Families
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What is Advance Care Planning?
Advance Care Planning is: A process of
planning for future medical care in case you are unable to make your own decisions.
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What is Advance Care Planning?
Advance Care Planning is: A continual process and not merely
a document or isolated event. May include the use of Advance
Directives (legal documents that state an individual’s preferences in care for life-threatening illness).
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Types of Advance Directives
Health Care Proxy Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Living Will Durable Power of Attorney
(DPOA) Medical Orders for Life-
Sustaining Treatment (MOLST)
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What is a Health Care Proxy?
A document in which a patient with decision-making capacity appoints a health care agent to make decisions about medical care in the event that the patient subsequently becomes incapable of making those decisions.
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What is a DNR?
A Do Not Resuscitate document is a legal document that states resuscitation should not be attempted if a person suffers cardiac or respiratory arrest.
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What is a Living Will?
A document in which a person with decision-making capacity expresses his/her wishes to receive or not receive certain life-sustaining treatments in the event that he/she becomes terminally ill and loses decision-making capacity in the future.
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What is a Durable Power of
Attorney? A legal document empowering a
designated person to act on another person's behalf.
DPOAs allow an individual to transfer medical decision-making authority to another in the event that the individual loses the ability to make these decisions.
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What is a MOLST?
A Medical Orders For Life-Sustaining Treatment form is used for those who are seriously ill or at the end of their lives. It is used to translate patient/resident goals and preferences into medical orders.
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Benefits of Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Planning: Assists you in preparing for a
sudden unexpected illness. Allows you to maintain control over
how you are treated. Ensures that you experience the
type of care that you desire.
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For more information about Advanced Care
Planning,contact
St. Peter’s Mission Services
at 525-6757 or visitwww.compassionandsupport.co
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