Compassion & Choices of Indiana
Health Care Advance Directives
Health Care Advance Directives
| WHAT ARE ADVANCE DIRECTIVES? |
Terms to Know
Health Care Advance Directive – The generic term for any document
that gives instructions about your health care and/or appoints
someone to make medical treatment decisions for you if you cannot
make them for yourself. Living Wills and Durable Powers of Attorney
for Health Care are both types of Health Care Advance Directives.
Living Will – A document in which you state your wishes about life-
sustaining medical treatment if you are terminally ill, permanently
unconscious, or in the end-stage of a fatal illness.
Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (or Health Care Proxy) – A
document in which you appoint someone else to make medical
treatment decisions for you if you cannot make them for yourself.
The person you name is called your agent, proxy, representative,
or surrogate. You can also include instructions for decision-making.
The American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging has
published a FACT SHEET about Advance Directives in which they
separate myth from fact about Health Care Advance Directives.
You can download it HERE.
You can download the Indiana Advance Directives from our
national website.
Health Care Advance Directive – The generic term for any document
that gives instructions about your health care and/or appoints
someone to make medical treatment decisions for you if you cannot
make them for yourself. Living Wills and Durable Powers of Attorney
for Health Care are both types of Health Care Advance Directives.
Living Will – A document in which you state your wishes about life-
sustaining medical treatment if you are terminally ill, permanently
unconscious, or in the end-stage of a fatal illness.
Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (or Health Care Proxy) – A
document in which you appoint someone else to make medical
treatment decisions for you if you cannot make them for yourself.
The person you name is called your agent, proxy, representative,
or surrogate. You can also include instructions for decision-making.
The American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging has
published a FACT SHEET about Advance Directives in which they
separate myth from fact about Health Care Advance Directives.
You can download it HERE.
You can download the Indiana Advance Directives from our
national website.
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