Who has the legal right to formulate Advance Directives?
All competent adults in Arizona. Advance care planning provides an opportunity for the patient to exercise the legal right to self-determination as affirmed by the United States Supreme Court in 1990. The Supreme Court established that patients maintain their right to self determination even when they are no longer able to direct their own health care, and that decisions for incompetent patients should be based on their previously stated wished.
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