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Critical thinking Assignment #1Attached Files:5wishes.pdf(163.1 KB)Use of Advanced Directives-CDC.pdf XXXXXXXXXXKB)Critical Thinking Assignment #1Under the federal Patient Self-Determination Act, most health care institutions are required to ask patients at the time of admission if they have an advanced health care directive, and must document in the medical record if the patient does have anadvanced directive.However, studies show that most long-term care patients do not have an advanced directive, with the possible exception of a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order.Read the CDC Report on the use of advanced directives in long-term care, and review the 5 Wishes example of a living will.Those documents areattached, but can also be accessed through these links:http://www.agingwithdignity.org/forms/5wishes.pdfhttp://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db54.pdfYou should go through the living will using yourself or a friend or family member as the patient.Your assignment will be to write a 3 page double-spaced paper with your thoughts about the use of advanced directives by the elderly.Possible questions you could address include what the pros and cons are of using advanced directives, what possible barriers may exist to increasing the use of advanced directives, whether as a society we should attempt to increase their use, and how we would go about increasing the use of advanced directives.

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Critical Thinking Assignment 1
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Advance Directives 
In today’s health care organizations, advance directives describes as a treatment 
preferences as well as the description of a surrogate decision-maker in the occurrence that a 
person would unable to make medical decisions on her/his own behalf (Doukas & Reichel, 
2007). In addition, an advance directive is drop into three categories such as: living will, power 
of attorney and health-care proxy. 
Living Will: It is a written document that identifies the types of medical treatment that are 
desired by the individuals in the condition of injured. 
Power Of Attorney: In this category, an individual completes legal documents that offer 
the power of attorney to others in the case of a devastating medical situation (Kolb, 2013).  
Health-care proxy: This is also a legal document in which a person authorizes another 
person to make health-care decisions if he/she is unable to make their wishes notorious.  
Importance of Advance Directives 
In my opinion, advance directives play a significant role in the life of the people. In 
addition, people should adopt advance directives to protect their lives in an effective manner 
(Swota, 2009). There are a lot of importance of advance directives that are discussed as follow: 
 Advance directives play a vital role in order to gather information and also understand the 
options of health care treatment at the end of life. 
 It is also helpful to discuss the end of life decisions with the important people such as: 
physician, family and other close people (Doukas & Reichel, 2007). 
 Advance Directives also play an important role to prepare the advance care directive 
form according the state law.

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