Who Gets a Copy of the Advance Medical Directive?
Any nursing home facility and hospital your loved one attends should be given a copy of the Advance Medical Directive and should keep it on file. Additionally, primary care physicians, family members, and the person designated with Power of Attorney should all receive copies. You should have as many relatives and friends of the family present as possible when the Advance Medical Directive is signed. The more people who know these wishes, the better the chance the appropriate actions will be taken. Similarly, many sons and daughters with a parent in a nursing home have a copy kept at their place of worship and keep an extra copy safely at their house in a home medical file or with other important documents in a fireproof container.
