End-of-Life Care Planning

What are Advanced Directives?

• Legal documents that state your wishes for medical care

• Instructions for emergency medical care

• Documents that name your health care proxy

• Orders for life-sustaining treatment

What does a durable power of attorney for health care do?

• Allows someone to make health care decisions for you

• Records your end-of-life care wishes

• Instructs health care providers not to perform CPR

• Provides actionable medical orders for end-of-life care

What does a living will do?

• Records your end-of-life care wishes

• Allows someone to make health care decisions for you

• Instructs health care providers not to perform CPR

• Provides actionable medical orders for end-of-life care

What does a Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) order do?

• Instructs health care providers not to perform CPR

• Records your end-of-life care wishes

• Allows someone to make health care decisions for you

• Provides actionable medical orders for end-of-life care

What is an AND order?

• An alternative to the DNR order that ensures comfort measures only

• A legal document that names your health care proxy

• A form that provides actionable medical orders for end-of-life care

• A document that records your end-of-life care wishes

What is a POLST form?

• A form that provides actionable medical orders for end-of-life care

• A legal document that names your health care proxy

• A document that records your end-of-life care wishes

• An alternative to the DNR order that ensures comfort measures only