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Long Term Care Directives

Texas law provides a number of ways for individuals to ensure that their wishes are carried out in the event they become incapacitated due to Alzheimer's Disease or other health conditions. Various standard forms can provide direction for medical professionals and family members who may have to make critical decisions regarding treatment, resuscitation, the disposition of property, and other matters. Although it is advisable for an individual to consult an attorney when planning for the future, certain forms are available to anyone, and when properly completed, they are legally valid.

Advanced Planning Articles

General Information on Rights to Make Treatment Decisions
In Texas there are three ways an individual has to make treatment decisions [ Read More ]
Paying for Long Term Care with Medicaid
How to understand the issues associated with paying for long term care using Medicaid. [ Read More ]
Missing Link of Advanced Directives
What happens to an individual when they require the care of others and are not at the end of life? [ Read More ]
Disclosure Statement for Medical Power of Attorney
This document gives the person you name as your agent the authority to make any and all health care decisions for you in accordance with your wishes, including your religious and moral beliefs, when you are no longer capable of making them yourself. [ Read More ]
Consent to Medical Treatment
This consent is not related to withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment [ Read More ]
Directive to Physicians and Family
This is an important legal document known as an Advance Directive. It is designed to help you communicate your wishes about medical treatment at some time in the future when you are unable to make your wishes known because of illness or injury. These wishes are usually based on personal values. In particular, you may want to consider what burdens or hardships of treatment you would be willing to accept for a particular amount of benefit obtained if you were seriously ill. [ Read More ]
Advanced Planning
Information about the Medical Power of Attorney, the Directive and other advance planning documents is available on the Alzheimer's Program section of the Texas Department of Health's Web site. More information about the DNR is available from the EMS section of TDH's Web site. The Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services provides all three forms. [ Read More ]