What are the two most common forms of advance directives?

What are the two most common forms of advance directives?

• A. Do Not Resuscitate and Living Will
• B. Health-care Proxy and Durable Power of Attorney
• C. Medical Directive and Consent to Treatment
• D. Living Will and Health-care Proxy

Answer: (D)

Advances directives are documents that ensure your medical wishes are followed if you can’t speak for yourself. The two most common forms are a living will, which spells out your preferences for treatments in certain situations, and a health-care proxy (also called a durable power of attorney for health care), which designates someone you trust to make medical decisions for you when you’re not able to. The living will provides guidance on what you want or don’t want, while the health-care proxy ensures there’s a designated person to carry out those decisions when needed. Other terms, like a Do Not Resuscitate order, address specific choices and aren’t as broadly used as stand-alone forms, and terms like medical directive or consent to treatment aren’t the standard pair used to describe the typical advance-directive toolkit.

Advances directives are documents that ensure your medical wishes are followed if you can’t speak for yourself. The two most common forms are a living will, which spells out your preferences for treatments in certain situations, and a health-care proxy (also called a durable power of attorney for health care), which designates someone you trust to make medical decisions for you when you’re not able to. The living will provides guidance on what you want or don’t want, while the health-care proxy ensures there’s a designated person to carry out those decisions when needed. Other terms, like a Do Not Resuscitate order, address specific choices and aren’t as broadly used as stand-alone forms, and terms like medical directive or consent to treatment aren’t the standard pair used to describe the typical advance-directive toolkit.