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The purpose of an advance health care directive is to help you make a decision now about how you want to be cared for if you become unable to communicate that to the health care team that is working with you in an emergency situation. Having filled out an advance directive form not only helps the doctors and nurses who are working with you, but it also help your family know how you want to be treated if your life is endangered.

Talking about needing an advance directive is often frightening to us, and we somehow feel that if we don鈥檛 even think about it, it won鈥檛 ever happen. But emergencies happen to many people. No one ever wakes up and thinks, 鈥淭oday, I鈥檓 going to have a really bad accident,鈥� or, 鈥淭oday, I鈥檓 going to have a heart attack.鈥� But these things do happen to people all of the time, and now is the time to take a few moments to fill out an advance directive for yourself and for your family.

Please click here to open a copy of an advance health care directive form using Adobe鈥檚 Acrobat Reader.

Read through the document, and if you have questions, ask your health care provider to help you work your way through them. If you don鈥檛 have access to a person who can help you, you can to link to the Web site for K艒kua Mau, a project coordinated by Hawai鈥榠鈥檚 Executive Office on Aging. You can use the project鈥檚 site to help answer your questions, and you can contact K艒kua Mau to ask for assistance or for more information.