Many senior citizens in California who travel during their retirement years worry about whether their estate planning documents will be accepted when they go outside of the state, particularly the Advanced Healthcare Directive.
Many people believe that when they create an estate plan and sign an Advanced Health Care Directive document, they’re also signing a Do Not Resuscitate order, or DNR. However, a DNR is actually a health care document and is not provided by attorneys as part of an estate plan. This means that you won’t sign a DNR in an attorney’s office; instead, it will be signed with a doctor or in a hospital. An Advanced Health Care Directive can impact a DNR, and the documents are sometimes used together to make sure your health care wishes are fulfilled.
At a certain point, it’s very likely that your elderly parent will want or need help handling their finances. In addition, they will also be thinking more about what types of end-of-life treatments they’d like to receive. While they may already have a Power of Attorney or Advanced Health Care Directive in place….
Along with the Last Will and Testament and Power of Attorney, an Advanced Healthcare Directives is one of the core estate planning documents everyone should have. Depending on your circumstances, a Healthcare Directive can serve a number of purposes, but most typically coming into use when you’re incapacitated and cannot make health care decisions for yourself.
