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What are Advanced Directives?

April 26, 2017advanced directives

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What are Advanced Directives?

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Advanced directives are documents that express your desires as to your medical and personal care in the event you become incapacitated. These documents include medical powers of attorney, living wills and cardiopulmonary resuscitation or do not resuscitate orders. Advanced directives are essential for letting your loved ones and doctors know your wishes in the event you are unable to communicate such wishes. In Colorado, only a doctor can provide a cardiopulmonary resuscitation or a do not resuscitate order without an advanced directive.

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Advance directives refer to the Illinois Statutory Living Will Declaration and the Illinois Statutory Short Form Power of Attorney for Health Care. With these documents, you designate in advance your desires for such things as organ donation, life-sustaining treatments, burial instructions, etc.