Your Right to Use Advance Directives
Advance Directives are a way for you to say or write down how you want health care treatment in the future.
You can “direct” (or say) what you want done or not done in the future if you are too sick or injured to say it yourself.
One kind of Advance Directive is called a Health Care Power of Attorney.
Your Advance Directives tell doctors who you want to make decisions for you.
Doctors and other support people use your Advance Directives to respect your wishes in future health care decisions.
Advance Directives are a good way to make decisions for yourself now and in the future.
Ask your doctors how to get Advance Directives.
