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14What To Do Now
Here are some suggestions to help ensure that your
If you are being admitted to a hospital or nursing
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wishes for your final health care are followed:
home, take a copy of your Georgia Advance
Directive for Health Care with you. Ask that it be
Make sure the person you have named as your
placed in your medical record.
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Health Care Agent and your back-up Agent know
what you want. If you have not shared your wishes
Plan to review and update your Individual
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with these individuals, talk to them the first
Worksheet and Georgia Advance Directive for
chance you get.
Health Care occasionally. As the circumstances of
your life change (growing older, being diagnosed
Keep your signed original Individual Worksheet
with an illness, etc.), your views may change.
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and Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care
Marriage, the birth of a child or the death of a
some place where they can be found easily. Do
loved one may also influence how you feel. Your
not put them in a safe deposit box which requires
loved ones will want to know that your Georgia
a key or combination to open. Tell your Health
Advance Directive for Health Care is a true expres-
Care Agent and other loved ones where to find
sion of your wishes and may have questions about a
your original documents.
document that is several years old. Initial and date
the forms each time you review them so your loved
Give copies of your Individual Worksheet and
ones will know you have not changed your mind.
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Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care to your
Agent, back-up Agents, and anyone else you think
If you do change your mind, you can cancel your
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should know what you want (family members,
Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care at any
lawyer, spiritual advisor, etc.). Keep a list of the
time. Be sure to notify everyone who has copies
people you give them to in case you change your
that you are writing a new advance directive,
mind.
thereby canceling the document they have.
Tell your doctor you have completed a Georgia
If you are terminally ill and wish to die at home,
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Advance Directive for Health Care and discuss
you should talk to your doctor, other caregivers,
your decisions with him or her. If you would like,
and family members about situations when you
have your doctor put a copy of your Georgia
might or might not want an ambulance called. If
Advance Directive for Health Care in your medical
an ambulance is called, the emergency team must
record.
give you life-prolonging care until you can get to
a hospital and be evaluated by a doctor, unless
Use one of the Wallet Cards included in this book-
you have a Do Not Resuscitate/ Allow Natural
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let to indicate that you have completed a Georgia
Death order that is clearly visible in your home or
Advance Directive for Health Care and where it
you are wearing an orange arm band or necklace
can be found. Carry it with you.
indicating that you have a Do Not Resuscitate/
Allow Natural Death order.
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