LawDepot’s customisable template allows you to make an Advance Directive or an EPA for Personal Care and Welfare. Easily follow our questionnaire and complete the steps below:
1. Determine which matters to cover in your document
You can choose to have your document cover:
- Your healthcare instructions
- Naming an attorney to make healthcare decisions for you
- Or a combination of both
Your selection will then prompt you to include what’s next.
2. Add your details
As the donor, you’ll need to include your title, name, and contact details. You can also revoke any existing Advance Directives or EPAs for Personal Care and Welfare and replace them with your new one.
3. If desired, name your attorney
If you’re creating an EPA for Personal Care and Welfare, you’ll need to name an attorney and a successor to make medical decisions on your behalf.
Add their names, contact details, and relationship to you. You can then determine what duties and authority you give them. This can include:
- If they need to consult anyone on their decisions
- Providing information on their duties to someone you wish to be informed
- Any limitations you want to add to their authority
4. Create a statement of values and beliefs
If it applies to your circumstances, you can include a statement of your values and beliefs. This statement specifies your beliefs and morals that may be relevant to your health care. However, it isn’t binding on doctors or health care professionals.
This statement can provide extra information that may affect your treatment if you’re hospitalized, such as your definition of quality of life or beliefs regarding specific treatments. For example, this can include a belief that no life support or prolonged, aggressive medical treatment be provided when there are no reasonable expectations of recovery.
5. Determine your treatment decisions
Next, outline your preferences for medical care. This can include treatment for:
- Terminal conditions
- Permanent comas
- Persistent vegetative states
- Advanced illness or injury
You can further decide which kind of behaviour and pain control drug treatments you would prefer to have, as well as outline any specific treatments unique to your situation.
You can add your wishes for organ donation that can include your:
- Heart
- Heart valves
- Lungs
- Liver
- Kidneys
- Pancreas
- Eyes
- Skin
Also, include the name and details of anyone you wish to be notified if you become incapacitated.
7. Add your signing details
Finally, add a signing date if you have one chosen already or leave it blank for when you do have one.