Proxy directives have the obvious advantage of not being constrained by unforeseeable
events. Persons desiring to designate a proxy could discuss their values at length with the …

Objective. A health care proxy is an advance directive that allows an individual to indicate in
writing who can act on his behalf when he lacks the capacity to make health care decisions …

Advance directives are designed to establish a person's preferences for treatment if the
person becomes incompetent in the future or unable to communicate those preferences to …

Oregon is one of three states that allows persons to prepare a legal document-and advance
directive-to stipulate the mental health treatment they wish to receive should they lose their …

Medical advance directives for end-of-life decisions at times that patients cannot express
their preferences have become a major trend in recent state and federal legislation. The …

Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are legal documents that permit competent adults to
make choices in the present about their future psychiatric treatment if they lose their decision …

OBJECTIVES: Psychiatric advance directives allow competent persons to document
advance instructions or designate a health care agent to communicate their preferences for …

Pscychiatric wills are advance directives for an eventual involuntary treatment in psychiatry.
We attempted to determine psychiatric professionals' knowledge and opinion about this …

This paper examines the potential for advance directives to be used by people with mental
illness. Also known as a 'living will', an advance directive enables a competent person to …

The living will was first proposed more than 20 years ago,'and for almost that long
commentators have suggested that it and other types of advance directives* could be used …