Advance directive
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A legal document that takes effect if one cannot make decisions due to illness or incapacity. Different types of advance directives exist.
Advance Directive A legal document that allows you to set out written wishes for your medical care and to name a person to make sure those wishes are carried out. (See also: living will, durable power of attorney for health care) ...
Advance Directive
A written expression of a person's desire for medical treatment used in cases where the person becomes incapacitated and is no longer capable of making his or her own decisions.
ADVANCE DIRECTIVE: see living will.
AFFIDAVIT: A written statement made under oath.
AGE OF MAJORITY: The age when a person acquires all the rights and responsibilities of being an adult. In most states, the age is 18.
Advance Directives
Formal legal documentation of your wishes related to your body and healthcare, should you become incapacitated or die.
advance directive : a document (as a living will or durable power of attorney) in which a person expresses his or her wishes regarding medical treatment in the event of incapacitation ...
An advance directive gives patients some control over their health care after they have lost the ability to make decisions owing to a medical condition.
A living will, also known as an "advance directive" is a document which usually takes the form of a written statement setting out in advance what types of medical treatment the maker of the will does or does not desire to receive in specific ...
LIVING WILL - Also known as a medical directive or advance directive. A written document that states a person's wishes regarding life-support or other medical treatment in certain circumstances, usually when death is imminent.
Living Wills, Health Care Power of Attorney, and Advance Directive
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: a power of attorney that becomes effective upon the principal's becoming incompetent or unable to manage his or her affairs and that is often used as a form of advance directive
compare living will
Pronunciation'du'r-&-b&l-, 'dyu'r- ...
 See also: Living will, Will, Law, State, Document
  
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