Would your loved ones know your healthcare wishes if you were unable to communicate?

Would your loved ones all agree on the course of care you would wish to receive if you were unable to communicate?

An advance directive may help relieve your family’s emotional concerns or help eliminate the guessing about your healthcare wishes. The document lets you put in writing your choices about medical treatment, when you are unable to make or communicate health care decisions.

These choices may include medical treatment you may or may not want performed.

Before completing an advance directive, you may want to consider issues like dying with dignity, your quality of life, comfort measures, or extraordinary life prolonging measures. You should discuss these issues with your physician, who can help clarify and answer your medical questions. Discussing these wishes with your loved ones is also important.

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Our Social Service staff can help answer questions and assist in completing Advance Directives. Please call 608-930-7200 extensions 3350 or 3300. Kim or Heidi will be glad to assist you.