Free Way to Create the Personalized Medical Advance Directive That Every Adult Should Have --
At last Wednesday's meeting, members requested a brief summary here of a great resource now available to all. It was demonstrated to us last year by our member John Kilner. It's a completely private online tool--available free of charge (not even any ads to endure!) at MedicalDecisions.info. It enables people to create a legal document called an "advance directive." In it, people identify who they want to make medical decisions for them when they lose the mental ability to make them, plus it flags for those decision-makers the key values and priorities that should guide their decision-making. John Kilner (jkilner@tiu.edu) has indicated he would be happy to help any individual or group use this tool to create advance directives.