Advance Directives
An Advance Directive includes a person’s living will and also allow you to identify a surrogate healthcare decision-maker who can represent your wishes should you become incapacitated. Advance directives vary by state and can include other documents, such as a dementia provision. State-specific advance directives make clear your end-of-life preferences if you are unable to make or communicate medical treatment decisions yourself.
Living Will
New Mexico Advance Directive
Advance care planning is a process, not an event, and is planning for future care based on a person’s values, beliefs, preferences, and specific medical issues. An advance directive is the record of that process. It is both an umbrella term for defining and expressing how one wants to live and be treated and for state approved advance directive documents which allow you to specify those things and usually to appoint a person (healthcare durable power of attorney) to speak when you are unable to speak for yourself.
You have the right to give instructions about your own health care. You also have the right to name someone else to make health-care decisions for you. This Optional Advance Healthcare Directive lets you do either or both of these things. It also lets you express your wishes regarding the designation of your primary physician.
University of New Mexico Health Science Center, Institute for Ethics
Click here for their Values History Form.
It is important that your medical treatment be your choice. The purpose of this form is to assist you in thinking about and writing down what is important to you about your health.
In the state of New Mexico, you are legally entitled to state your preferences for treatment in advance in case a time comes when you are no longer able to make those decisions for yourself. You also have a right to choose a person to make those decisions for you. If you do not appoint someone, the law provides that an appropriate relative or friend in a special relationship with you can make health care decisions on your behalf. Click here for Advance Directive form.
My End-of-Life Decisions: An Advance Planning Guide and Toolkit
Learn more at Compassion and Choices free End of Life Planning Guide
Five Wishes
Learn more at Five Wishes.
Five Wishes is an easy-to-use legal advance directive document written in everyday language. It helps all adults, regardless of age or health, to consider and document how they want to be cared for at the end of life. It is America’s most popular living will with more than 35 million copies in circulation.
Five Wishes is unique among all other living will and healthcare agent forms because it speaks to all of a person’s needs: medical, personal, emotional and spiritual. Five Wishes also helps to guide and structure discussions with your family and physician, making conversations easier.
New Mexico Advance Directive
Learn more at CaringInfo
Advance care planning is a process, not an event, and is planning for future care based on a person’s values, beliefs, preferences, and specific medical issues. An advance directive is the record of that process. It is both an umbrella term for defining and expressing how one wants to live and be treated and for state approved advance directive documents which allow you to specify those things and usually to appoint a person (healthcare durable power of attorney) to speak when you are unable to speak for yourself.
University of New Mexico Health Science Center, Institute for Ethics
It is important that your medical treatment be your choice. The purpose of this form is to assist you in thinking about and writing down what is important to you about your health.
In the state of New Mexico, you are legally entitled to state your preferences for treatment in advance in case a time comes when you are no longer able to make those decisions for yourself. You also have a right to choose a person to make those decisions for you. If you do not appoint someone, the law provides that an appropriate relative or friend in a special relationship with you can make health care decisions on your behalf. Click here for the New Mexico Advance Directive forms
My End-of-Life Decisions: An Advance Planning Guide and Toolkit
Learn more at Compassion and Choices
FiveWishes
Learn more at FiveWishes.com
Five Wishes is an easy-to-use legal advance directive document written in everyday language. It helps all adults, regardless of age or health, to consider and document how they want to be cared for at the end of life. It is America’s most popular living will with more than 35 million copies in circulation.
Five Wishes is unique among all other living will and healthcare agent forms because it speaks to all of a person’s needs: medical, personal, emotional and spiritual. Five Wishes also helps to guide and structure discussions with your family and physician, making conversations easier.
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When planning for your future medical care, prepare your advance directives to be sure your loved ones make health choices according to your wishes.
AARP
Compassion and Choices
Try their free End of Life Planning Guide to help you think through your priorities for end of life care, complete an advance directive and other forms you may need, choose a representative to speak for you if you cannot, and consider common end of life medical interventions so you can specify what you want or don’t want – right up to the end. And, it will guide you in having valuable conversations with your healthcare providers and loved ones.
