Planning ahead : an overview -- Why you should plan for incapacity -- Using medical directives -- Using a durable power of attorney for finances -- The mental capacity requirement -- Will you need a lawyer? -- If a loved one needs help -- Other important issues to consider -- Advance health care directives -- How advance directives work -- About your health care agent -- Preparing your advance directive -- What to do after you complete your advance directive -- Revoking an advance directive -- Do not resuscitate (DNR) and POLST forms -- How DNR orders work -- Preparing a DNR form -- What to do after you complete a DNR form -- Revoking a DNR form -- About POLST forms -- Durable powers of attorney for finances -- How durable powers of attorney for finances work -- About your agent for finances -- Preparing your durable power of attorney -- Making your durable power of attorney legal -- Revoking a durable power of attorney for finances -- Help beyond the book -- Legal document assistants -- Lawyers -- Getting more information on your own.
Summary
"This book shows the reader how to plan for the future by preparing the following official California documents using easy-to-follow instructions: An Advance Health Care Directive, also called a "living will." It lets the reader state his or her wishes for health care if he or she becomes incapacitated and names a trusted person who will work with health care providers to be sure to get the kind of care he or she wants. A Durable Power of Attorney for Finances to appoint the person of the reader's choice to manage his or her finances if he or she no longer can. This book also explains Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) forms, which alert emergency medical personnel not to administer extreme life-saving measures, and POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) forms"-- Provided by publisher.
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