For Advance Directives we have terms and definitions in 6 topics. The topics are Female Health, Health, Legal, Mesothelioma, Nervous System Disorders, Nursing Home Abuse and Surgery.

Advance Directives (Female Health)

A statement about a person's future wishes about treatment in the event that he or she is unable to make competent decisions. Examples include living wills, health care proxies, do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders and durable powers of attorney for health care.

Advance Directives (Health)

Legal documents, such as living wills and durable powers of attorney for healthcare decisions, stating a patient's medical preferences in the event the patient should become incapable of voicing his/her opinion.

Advance Directives (Legal, Mesothelioma)

Legal documents that tell the doctor and family what a person wants for future medical care, including whether to start or when to stop life-sustaining treatment.

Advance Directives (Nervous System Disorders)

Documents (such as a Living Will) completed and signed by a person who is legally competent to explain his/her wishes for medical care should he/she become unable to make those decisions at a later time.

Advance Directives (Nursing Home Abuse)

Instructions written ahead of time regarding how a person wants his or health care administered in the event that the person is unable to make decisions at the time health care is needed. Also called a "Living Will."

Advance Directives (Surgery)

Legal documents stating a patient's medical preferences in the event the patient should become incapable of voicing his/her opinion. (See also durable power of attorney and living will.)

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