End-Of-Life Decision Making & Advanced Healthcare Directives: Who Needs Them?

Let’s talk about end-of-life planning. It’s difficult and stressful to consider, but are you confident that when worst comes to worst, you are medically prepared to communicate specific instructions? Are your loved ones fully knowledgeable of your wishes in terms of CPR or ventilation? Do you have a clean and transparent list of all your medications and known allergies? If you answered, “no” to any question, you may want to think about an advanced healthcare directive.

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Advance healthcare directive

Silver Mangos highlights the importance of healthcare directives. These legal documents communicate a person’s wishes about healthcare should they become incapable of making decisions during an emergency.

Dr. Luis Pagan-Carlo, the bestselling author of Your Life’s Choice, emphasizes the need for end-of-life conversations and advance directives. In worst-case scenarios, you may be unable to express your needs and preferences in healthcare, and your loved ones may also not know your instructions for medical or end-of-life care. Advanced directives provide medical practitioners a guide if you are terminally ill, in a coma, suffering from dementia, seriously injured, or near the end of life.

It's a difficult conversation to have, but one worth having - anyone can get sick at any time. Ask yourself if you and your family are prepared if it happens: Does your wife know specifically what medicines you take? Does your husband know your special revival instructions?

End-of-life conversations

Dr. Pagan-Carlo cautions against end-of-life planning until there is no more time and it is too late. You should start making advanced directives for yourself as soon as possible to ensure you maintain your autonomy and dignity, even when you are sick or injured.

Some considerations to include in an advanced directive are current medications, allergies, and preferences for medical decisions, such as CPR, ventilation, and feeding. Dr. Pagan-Carlo clarifies that unless otherwise specified, medical professionals are trained to use any and every option to save a person’s life.

“The medical treatments most patients receive from healthcare professionals in an emergency, such as when a person’s heart or breathing stops (cardiac or respiratory arrest), may be very different from what they actually prefer,” he writes. “When patients are unable to communicate – because of loss of consciousness, being considered not of sound mind, or not leaving medical or end-of-life instructions in a legal form, or lacking medical surrogate – emergency medical services (EMS) responders, doctors, and nurses reflexively reach for one option: save life.”

It's also a good idea to have these end-of-life conversations with your parents and create advanced directives for and with them.

End-of-life preparations

You can download a free copy of Dr. Pagan-Carlo’s end-of-life conversations guide that includes practical and realistic advanced healthcare directive examples. It also addresses popular misconceptions, such as that an advanced directive is only necessary for the elderly or very sick.

Want to learn more? Download your copy of Dr. Pagan-Carlo’s book, Your Life’s Choice, by scanning the QR code listed in the report.

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