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You are here: Home / Home Top List / Have Your Parents Completed Their Advanced Healthcare Directive ?

Have Your Parents Completed Their Advanced Healthcare Directive ?

April 2, 2018 by Michelle

Have Your Parents Completed Their Advanced Healthcare Directive ?

Tough topic, but if you don’t have this conversation with the elderly people in your life, their passing will be much more complicated and expensive. Your family needs to have a medical death plan.

Hospital Death Choice

This Toolkit is a comprehensive, step-by-step process that introduces a series of tools that will remove all the barriers that surround the conversation about death and dying.

Toolkit for Health Care Advance Planning ~ Written by the American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging.

Introduction.   If you are looking at this tool kit, you are either thinking of making a health care advance directive (such as a living will or durable power of attorney for health care), or you may have already signed one. In either case, you should be aware that just having a written advance directive by itself does not ensure that your wishes will be understood and respected. Studies have shown that standard advance directive forms do little to influence end-of-life decisions without: (1) informed, thoughtful reflection about your wishes and values, and (2) personal communication between you and your likely decision-makers before a crisis occurs.

Home or Hospice Death Choice

Why a Tool Kit?  Good advance planning for health care decisions is, in reality, a continuing conversation–about values, priorities, the meaning of one’s life, and quality of life. To help you in this process, this tool kit contains a variety of self-help worksheets, suggestions, and resources. There are currently 9 tools in all, each clearly labeled and user-friendly. The tool kit does not create a formal advance directive for you. Instead, it helps you do the much harder job of discovering, clarifying, and communicating what is important to you in the face of serious illness.

List of “Tools” for Health Care Advance Planning

There were originally 10 “Tools” in this Tool Kit. One of them is retired.  You can download the tools below as separate pdfs.

Notice of Copyright and Notes to Second Edition

  • Tool #1
    How to Select Your Health Care Agent or Proxy
  • Tool #2 tool is under revision
  • Tool #3
    How Do You Weigh Odds of Survival?
  • Tool #4
    Personal Priorities and Spiritual Values Important to Your Medical Decisions
  • Tool #5
    After Death Decisions to Think About Now
  • Tool #6
    Conversation Scripts: Getting Past the Resistance
  • Tool #7
    The Proxy Quiz for Family & Physician
  • Tool #8
    What to Do After Signing Your Health Care Advance Directive
  • Tool #9
    Guide for Health Care Proxies
  • Tool #10
    Health Decisions Resources

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Want to learn more about Death Planning? Wills and Trusts? Death Wishes?

Live to Die ~ The BirthDay-DeathDay Planning Process 

~ Written by Michelle Dragony

GET THE BOOK and READ IT

Linda Galindo’s Testimonial ~ “I challenge you to read Live to Die, cover to cover, without thinking about what you need to do, to literally rest in peace. Michelle Dragony takes on a sensitive but required topic, especially for women. Women must ensure, not only their financial legacy, but that their family is appropriately cared for when the inevitable time comes.”  ~ Linda Galindo

Author of “The 85% Solution, How Personal Accountability Guarantees Success. No Nonsense, No Excuses”. Linda Galindo’s Website

 

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