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Health Care Directives

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Health Care Directives

Additional Resources

  • Honoring Choices offers a resource-filled website to help you with end-of-life care planning. Download a healthcare directive form, available in many languages and valid in Minnesota.

  • If you spend time outside of the state of Minnesota, you should make sure to have a Health Care Directive that complies with the laws of the particular state in which you may receive care as not all states have the same requirements for creating a valid Health Care Directive. For an excellent resource for state specific forms and information on hospice and palliative care, go to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization's site and click on "Advance Directives" under Quick Links.

  • An excellent and thought provoking article by St. Paul attorney Barbara Blumer, from the July 2005 issue of Bench & Bar magazine.

A Health Care Directive (sometimes referred to as a “Living Will” or a “Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care”) is a document that helps those involved in your care know what your wishes are when you are not able to communicate those desires at a point in time when decisions regarding your care need to be made.

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