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To obtain or create an advance health care directive form: Contact your health care provider. Consult with private legal counsel. Refer to the Office of the Attorney General's website. Refer to Probate Code section 4701.
The AHCD allows you to make specific written instructions for your future health care in the event of any situation in which you can no longer speak for yourself. The AHCD replaces the Natural Death Act and is now recognized as the legal format for a living will in the state of California.
The Advance Health Care Directive (AHCD) Form helps you to make health care choices now in case you can't speak for yourself later on. You can use an AHCD do many things. Like say who you want to speak for you and what kind of care you want. AHCDs are ?advance? because you prepare one before health care choices.
UNIFORM HEALTH CARE DECISIONS ACT [4670 - 4743] ( Part 2 added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. ) You have the right to give instructions about your own health care. You also have the right to name someone else to make health care decisions for you. This form lets you do either or both of these things.
The most common types of advance directives are the living will and the durable power of attorney for health care (sometimes known as the medical power of attorney). There are many advance directive formats.
Traditionally, there are two main kinds of advance directives: the living will and the Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare. California also allows the use of a POLST (Physician's Orders For Life-Sustaining Treatment).
In California, an Advance Directive is made of up two parts, (1) Appointment of an Agent for Healthcare and (2) Individual Health Care Instructions. A person may choose to complete either one or both of these parts. Either part is legally binding by itself.
The law that establishes advance directives in California is the Health Care Decisions Act. It is based on the Uniform Law Comission's Uniform Health Care Decisions Act. It is in the California Probate Code, at Sections 4670 through 4806.