Advanced Planning for Health Care

Advanced Directives: Resources (Medline Plus)
Comparison of Wisconsin's Living Will and Power of Attorney for Health Care (GWAAR)
Compares Declaration to Physicians (Ch. 154, Wis. Stats.) and Power of Attorney for Health Care (Ch. 155, Wis. Stats.)
End of Life Planning and Advanced Directives (WI Dept. of Health Services)
Information & forms pertaining to living wills.
Consumer's Tool Kit for Health Care Advance Planning (American Bar Association)
Tool kit contains self-help worksheets, suggestions & resources for assisting you in discovering, clarifying & communicating what is important to you if you should face a serious illness. Ten tools are included in the kit:
- How to select your health care agent or proxy
- Are some conditions worse than death?
- How do you weigh odds of survival?
- Personal priorities & spiritual values important to your medical decisions
- After death decisions to think about now
- Conversation scripts : getting past the resistance
- "Proxy IQ test" for family or physician
- What to do after signing your health care advance directive
- Guide for health care proxies
- Resources for advance planning for health care.
Forms
- Declaration to Physicians (Living Will) Form (WI Dept. of Health Services)
- Power of Attorney for Health Care (WI Dept. of Health Services)
Health Care: Answering Your Legal Questions (State Bar of WI)

The Law (Additional statutes, regulations & opinions may apply to your specific situation.)

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