MN Board on Aging Health Care Directive instructions and forms. These materials were developed by a group of professionals with expertise in law, health care, life and
death health care decision making, and plain language materials development with the leadership of Marlene S. Stum, PhD, University of Minnesota Extension Service: http://www.mnaging.org/advisor/directive.htm
Caring Connections provides free advance directives and instructions for each state that can be opened as a PDF. Caring Connections, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is a national consumer engagement initiative to improve care at the end of life. Minnesota’s “Advance Directive Planning for Important Healthcare Decisions” can be downloaded from: http://www.caringinfo.org/UserFiles/File/Minnesota.pdf
Minnesota Health Care Directive. A principal with the capacity to do so may execute a health care directive. A health care directive may include one or more health care instructions to direct health care providers, others assisting with health care, family members, and a health care agent. A health care directive may include a health care power of attorney to appoint a health care agent to make health care decisions for the principal when the principal, in the judgment of the principal's attending physician, lacks decision-making capacity, unless otherwise specified in the health care directive. MN Statutes 145C.16 contains guidance for state health care directives as well as a suggested form found at: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=145C.16
Honoring Choices Minnesota approved Health Care Directive form:
http://www.metrodoctors.com/document.cfm?id=318 (Honoring Choices Minnesota is a comprehensive, collaborative approach to advance care planning that is beginning in the Twin Cities metro area, using the internationally-recognized Respecting Choices® program as a model and guide.)
Aging with Dignity
www.agingwithdignity.org Aging with Dignity offers Five Wishes, a popular health care directive form that is legal in most states (including Minnesota). Single copies are $5; 25 or more, $1 each. It is available in 20 languages.
Hospice Minnesota
www.hospicemn.org Website has direct links to Health Care Directive forms in English and Spanish, and additional information
including:
Life and Death Decisions Aren’t Easy
Sample Language for Health Care Directives
Health Care Information Wallet Card
Health Care Agent Information Card
MN Board on Aging Health Care Directive instructions and forms. These materials were developed by a group of professionals with expertise in law, health care, life and
death health care decision making, and plain language materials development with the leadership of Marlene S. Stum, PhD, University of Minnesota Extension Service: http://www.mnaging.org/advisor/directive.htm
Caring Connections provides free advance directives and instructions for each state that can be opened as a PDF. Caring Connections, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is a national consumer engagement initiative to improve care at the end of life. Minnesota’s “Advance Directive Planning for Important Healthcare Decisions” can be downloaded from: http://www.caringinfo.org/UserFiles/File/Minnesota.pdf
Minnesota Health Care Directive. A principal with the capacity to do so may execute a health care directive. A health care directive may include one or more health care instructions to direct health care providers, others assisting with health care, family members, and a health care agent. A health care directive may include a health care power of attorney to appoint a health care agent to make health care decisions for the principal when the principal, in the judgment of the principal's attending physician, lacks decision-making capacity, unless otherwise specified in the health care directive. MN Statutes 145C.16 contains guidance for state health care directives as well as a suggested form found at: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=145C.16
Honoring Choices Minnesota approved Health Care Directive form:
http://www.metrodoctors.com/document.cfm?id=318 (Honoring Choices Minnesota is a comprehensive, collaborative approach to advance care planning that is beginning in the Twin Cities metro area, using the internationally-recognized Respecting Choices® program as a model and guide.)
Aging with Dignity
www.agingwithdignity.org Aging with Dignity offers Five Wishes, a popular health care directive form that is legal in most states (including Minnesota). Single copies are $5; 25 or more, $1 each. It is available in 20 languages.
Hospice Minnesota
www.hospicemn.org Website has direct links to Health Care Directive forms in English and Spanish, and additional information
including:
Life and Death Decisions Aren’t Easy
Sample Language for Health Care Directives
Health Care Information Wallet Card
Health Care Agent Information Card
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