Health Directives
- Advance directive: A written tool used to guide health care decisions when an individual is unable to do so because of a medical condition. Livings Wills and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care are different types of advance directives. In Minnesota, the living will and durable Power of Attorney for Health Care are combined and called a Health Care Directive.
- Health care directive: The term for Minnesota’s advance directive that combines a living will and durable-power-of-attorney-for-health-care into one document .
- Health care agent : One or more persons legally authorized to make health care decisions for you, if at a future time you are unable to make or communicate your own decisions.
- POLST: A medical order based on your doctor’s understanding of your wishes regarding life-sustaining treatment. Physicians complete this medical order based on in-person conversations with you, or the wishes expressed in your health care directive. The POLST communicates your decisions to other health care providers during an emergency. A DNR (do not resuscitate) is a POLST that only covers respiratory resuscitation.
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