Making Advance Health Care Decisions – Getting Started

Have you thought about what medical care you would like to receive in the event you become unable to express your wishes?  More importantly, have you shared those thoughts with loved ones and your medical professionals?  Like making your Will, planning for future incapacity can be difficult, and discussing it with your loved ones may be uncomfortable.    But this is one area where it is very much a case of an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure.  Discussions with your loved ones clearly setting out your wishes on the types of medical care you wish to receive will not only lessen the likelihood of conflict amongst your loved ones, but will also allow them to make hard decisions knowing the decision is truly in keeping with your wishes.