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Advance
Healthcare Directive
1
Use this advance directive to direct your future medical care as follows:
Pages 2 – 4: Identify and write down your values and healthcare goals
Pages 5 – 6: Appoint a person who could speak for you if you can’t speak for yourself
Page 7: Consider organ donation
Pages 8 – 10: Sign the form with witnesses or a notary present to make it legal
After you have completed your advance directive, discuss it with your healthcare team.
They will place the document in CareConnect, UCLA’s electronic health record.
At UCLA Health, we want to be a partner in your healthcare decisions. We strive to provide the best
medical care to achieve each patient’s health objectives. It is important for you, as a patient, to be fully
informed about your health, and to have the opportunity to express your personal healthcare goals.
When the members of your healthcare team know what is important to you, they can best apply their
medical expertise to help you reach those goals.
Advance care planning enables you to work with your healthcare team so they understand your perspectives
and can integrate them into future treatment recommendations. Your healthcare team wants you to think
about your values and preferences to guide the medical care you receive. This is an opportunity for you
to think about what future health states you desire (for example, being able to carry out certain activities)
and what situations you want to avoid (for example, being kept alive on machines while in a coma). You can
discuss your wishes with your healthcare team and record them in this document. You can also indicate
your healthcare agent, someone you would want to make decisions for you if you are unable to do so.
This advance directive form is to record those wishes.
Introduction to Advance Care Planning
Advance Healthcare Directive 2
Your values and goals
Your healthcare team will use medical treatments to try to achieve your goals. When people are seriously ill,
many people think about treatment goals in terms of how they are willing to live.
I would not want medical treatments to try to keep me alive if I could no longer:
(Check each statement you agree with)
live without being permanently hooked up to a breathing machine
recognize family and friends
talk to family and friends
feed, bathe or take care of myself
live without severe pain or discomfort
think well enough to make everyday decisions
Other:
I’m not sure
None of the above apply. My life is always worth living, no matter how sick I am.
Sometimes when a person is very sick, life-support treatments are used while the healthcare
team tries to help the person get better. These treatments may include CPR, a breathing
tube or dialysis. Considering the statements that you chose above, would you want to receive
life-support treatments:
(Choose one)
Never, under any circumstances
Only if the chances are high of surviving to live in a way acceptable to me
If the chances are at least moderate of surviving to live in a way acceptable to me
Even if the chances are low of surviving to live in a way acceptable to me
I would want my healthcare agent to decide this for me, if needed
For more information about life-support treatments, ask your physician.
3
If you have wishes or thoughts about receiving or not receiving life-support treatments like CPR,
a breathing tube, dialysis, feeding tube or other treatments, such as blood transfusions, write
them here. These wishes will be used as healthcare instructions to your healthcare agent.
Please write any other beliefs or values that you would want your healthcare agent to know if you
become unable to speak for yourself.
Is there anything you want your healthcare team to know about your religion or spirituality?
Your values and goals (Continued)
Advance Healthcare Directive 4
Is there a religious/spiritual leader from the community you want to be involved?
(Provide contact information)
If I am so ill that I will not recover, I would prefer to die, if possible:
(Choose one or more of the following options)
At home under the care of hospice
In the hospital
In a skilled nursing facility
Not sure, my healthcare agent can decide this
Where I die is not important to me
5
A healthcare agent is the person you choose to make medical decisions for you when you can no longer make
them for yourself. is may be the person who cares the most about you, the person you are closest to, or the
person you feel will fulll your wishes. You will appoint your healthcare agent in this advance directive.
You should talk with the person that you choose to be your healthcare agent for two reasons:
•
to make sure your healthcare agent knows that he or she is your healthcare agent
•
to make sure your healthcare agent knows about your healthcare goals and values so he or she can make the
decisions you would want
Most people choose a spouse, child or sibling to be their healthcare agent, but your healthcare agent can be
another relative or a close friend.
Role of a healthcare agent
Your healthcare agent will be able to make nearly any medical decision that you could make for yourself.
Your healthcare agent will be able to:
•
speak with your healthcare team about your condition and treatment options
•
choose healthcare providers and the location of medical treatment
•
review your medical record and authorize its release when needed
•
accept or refuse medical treatments, including articial nutrition and hydration and CPR
•
decide about tissue and organ donation and autopsy
•
decide about care for your body aer death
Your healthcare agent should be:
•
legally able to serve as your agent (at least 18 years old and not your healthcare provider or an employee of your
provider, unless this person is your spouse or a close relative)
•
available when needed and willing to make decisions on your behalf
•
comfortable asking questions of your healthcare team and able to make the healthcare decisions you would want
Choosing your healthcare agent
Advance Healthcare Directive 6
Naming your healthcare agent
If you are not able to make decisions for yourself, your values and preferences will guide your treatment.
If other decisions are needed, your healthcare agent will make healthcare decisions for you.
My healthcare agent will make decisions for me only aer I cannot make my own decisions.
If I am unable to make my own healthcare decisions, I want the following person to do so:
First name Last name
Relationship
Address
City State Zip code
Home phone E-mail
Work phone
Mobile phone
If the person listed above cannot make decisions for me, then I want the following person to make
my medical decisions:
First name Last name
Relationship
Address
City State Zip code
Home phone E-mail
Work phone
Mobile phone
Have you discussed your healthcare preferences with your healthcare agent?
Yes
No → It is important for you to talk with your healthcare agent.
7
Organ and tissue donation
Donating your organs and tissues when you die can save the lives of others. Indicate below
whether you want to donate your organs.
I want my organs donated when I die. Which organs do you want to donate?
any organ
only (specify):
I do not want to donate my organs.
I would want my healthcare agent to decide.
To learn more about which organs or tissues can be donated, or to register as an organ donor
with the state of California, visit donatelifecalifornia.org.
Donating your body to UCLA for medical education and research will help train the next
generation of doctors and promote anatomical research. Indicate below whether you would
want your body donated.
I want my body donated when I die.→ If you would like to donate your body, there are preparatory steps to
take. To learn more and receive a donor packet, visit donatedbodyprogram.ucla.edu or call (310) 794
-
0372.
Is there anything that you would like your healthcare providers to know about how you want
your body to be cared for after you die?
Body donation
Advance Healthcare Directive 8
Signing the form
This form cannot be used by your healthcare providers to honor your wishes until you sign
the form and:
get two witnesses
to sign the form
or
have it notarized by a state
licensed notary public
Sign your name and write the date in the presence of two witnesses or a notary.
Signature Date
First Name Last Name
Street Address
City State Zip Code Phone
click to sign
signature
click to edit
9
Two witnesses sign the form
If you have two witnesses, have them sign below. If not, take this form to a notary public.
Your witnesses must
•
be over 18 years of age
•
know you
•
see you sign this form
Your witnesses cannot
•
be your healthcare agent
•
be your healthcare provider
•
work for your healthcare provider
•
work at the nursing home where you
live (if you live in a nursing home)
Also, one of the witnesses cannot:
•
be related to you in any way
•
benet nancially (get any money or
property) aer you die
Have your witnesses sign their names and write the date.
By signing, I conrm that signed this form while I watched.
He/she was thinking clearly and was not forced to sign this form.
I also conrm that the following are true:
Witness #1
Signature Date
First Name Last Name
Street Address
City State Zip Code Phone
Witness #2
Signature Date
First Name Last Name
Street Address
City State Zip Code Phone
Witness 1 or 2 also must sign the statement below:
I also conrm that the following are true:
Signature:
•
I am not his/her healthcare agent
•
I am not his/her healthcare provider and
don’t work for his/her healthcare provider
•
I will not benet nancially
(receive money or property) aer he/she dies
•
I do not work where he/she lives
(if living in a nursing home)
•
I know him/her or this person
could prove who he/she is
•
I am 18 years or older
•
I am not related to the person who signed this
form by blood, marriage or adoption
This advance directive is now complete. Share this form with your healthcare team, healthcare
agent and family. This document should be placed in CareConnect, UCLA’s electronic health
record. You have the right to revoke or change this advance directive at any time.
Advance Healthcare Directive 10
This advance directive is now complete. Share this form with your healthcare team, healthcare
agent and family. This document should be placed in CareConnect, UCLA’s electronic health
record. You have the right to revoke or change this advance directive at any time.
Notary Public
If two witnesses have not signed this form, take this form to a notary public.
Please bring a government-issued photo I.D. (driver’s license, passport, etc.)
YOU MAY USE THIS CERTIFICATE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT BEFORE A NOTARY PUBLIC INSTEAD OF
THE STATEMENT OF WITNESSES.
A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of
the individual who signed the document to which this certificate is attached, and not the
truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document.
State of California, County of
On (date) before me, (name and title of the ocer)
personally appeared [name(s) of signer(s)] , who proved
to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) whose name(s) is/are subscribed to the within
instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their authorized capacity(ies),
and that by his/ her/their signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon behalf of which the
person(s) acted, executed the instrument.
I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is
true and correct.
WITNESS my hand and ocial seal. [Civil Code Section 1189]
Signature:
*(Notary Public)
(Please place Notary seal above)
© 2016 THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. e UCLA Advance Directive was created by UCLA Advance
Care Planning and Services with consultation from the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, and was inspired by a
number of advance directive documents including the California Advance Health Care Directive. is document is licensed under
an attribution-noncommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license. For commercial use of this document, please contact
the UCLA Advance Care Planning and Services at (310) 794-6219.
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