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Contact Us:
1835 Rogers Road
Anderson, SC 29621
Phone
864.224.3358
800.261.8636
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864.328.1132
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Make Your Wishes Known...
Planning for Important Healthcare Decisions

  An Advance Directive is a plan for how future medical decisions should be made if and when a patient is not capable of making choices for him or herself. 

Hospice of the Upstate offers Advance Directives as information and
community education.  It is not intended to replace the advice of legal
counsel regarding these or other planning documents.

It’s important to remember:
·       
Decisions like these are best considered before
     there is a health crisis
·        Your Advance Directive can be changed as your
     situation or your wishes change
·       
Your loved ones and your healthcare providers
     need to be aware of your decisions, and your
     Advance Directives need to be accessible to them

 The state of South Carolina recognizes different forms of Advance Directives that provide written instructions on life-sustaining medical procedures and decisions regarding care at the end of life.  The most commonly used directives are:

 Healthcare Power of Attorney – this document lets us appoint an agent to speak on our behalf if we cannot speak for ourselves.  It also allows us to specify whether or not we wish certain life-sustaining methods to be used.

 Declaration of a Desire for a Natural Death – the Living Will allows us to decide whether or not to receive life-sustaining medical procedures.  This form is used in the absence of a trusted friend or relative who can speak on your behalf.

 Please consult your attorney or other qualified professional
 to determine which form is right for you.

 

 

Click on each one to download forms

Healthcare Power of Attorney ___________


 
"Living Will"
aka Declaration of a Desire
for a Natural Death

___________

We offer frequent community classes about Advanced Directives

 
NEXT CLASSES:
Tuesday, Jan. 17th
  1pm-2pm /Sadler Center

 

Call 864.328.1966
for more information
or to register.