The 5 D's to Update Your Advance Directive

Maggie Tinsley joins us to talk about My Living Voice, which is a secure, online platform that guides you through advance care planning. It gives users the opportunity to name their healthcare proxy, to clarify their treatment preferences, and helps them understand the various options and terminologies. After you name your healthcare proxy and treatment preferences, it allows you to make it a legal advance care directive in the state in which you reside. This document can then be shared with your loved ones or your medical team. My Living Voice takes all of the guesswork out of this process. You can even select which states you’d like it to be valid in.

Key Takeaways:

Some states require a notary for an advance directive to be validIn some states, the witness cannot be the person named as your healthcare proxyMy Living Voices will take you through the process step by step (including filling you in on the state by state information/differences as mentioned above)Your gut reaction might be to designate your spouse or someone close to you as your healthcare proxy. It’s important to have a conversation with them to ensure they would be able to make tough decisions, despite being emotionally involved. It’s also important to ensure they would honor your wishes.This can be personalized completely, down to what music you want to be played, how warm you like it to be, who you DON’T want present, etc.

To access the resources discussed by Maggie today, please visit:

MyLivingVoice.com

VitalDecisions.net

 

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https://www.gotittogethernow.com/eif
 

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