Tis the season for family get-togethers, and a good time to start the conversation about advance care planning while family and friends are gathered.<\/p>\n
Advance care planning gives you the opportunity to make decisions about what care you would or would not want if you become unable to speak for yourself. These discussions can be difficult, whether for yourself, your partner or a parent. Having the conversation early, in a non-urgent setting, may make it easier.<\/p>\n
If you haven\u2019t yet begun the conversation with family and caregivers, we hope the following information will be useful in initiating the discussion.<\/p>\n
What are advance directives?<\/strong> There are two types of directives:<\/strong><\/p>\n Below is a list of helpful websites for information about advance care planning.<\/strong><\/p>\n Tis the season for family get-togethers, and a good time to start the conversation about advance care planning while family and friends are gathered. Advance care planning gives you the opportunity to make decisions about what care you would or would not want if you become unable to speak for yourself. These discussions can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/holidays-family.png?fit=850%2C490&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZGa-1QY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7132,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions\/7132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAdvance directives are legal documents that outline, ahead of time, your decisions for end-of-life care and medical treatment. Advance directives are made to ensure that your wishes are carried out if you are ever unable to communicate with your health care providers.<\/p>\n\n
\nCompleting advance directives<\/strong>
\nAdvance directives can be documented by your primary care provider (PCP) or attorney, or you can print forms and complete them with your family or caregivers. Once your advance directives are completed, schedule an appointment with your PCP or bring copies with you to your well-care visit
\nor physical exam. Also, give a copy to your designated health care proxy, and keep a copy for yourself in a place easy for others to find. You can change your mind about your advance directives at any time by completing new forms with different instructions.<\/p>\n\n