This new resource for advance directives helps you consider your preferences for medical treatments prior to a serious illness or injury and to express your wishes for your health care treatment in an advance directive in case you are unable to communicate your wishes on your own.

 The new publication is part of a series of resources from CHA that also includes the updated and refreshed palliative and hospice care publication, “Living Well with Serious Illness.”

 Both publications are available as downloadable PDFs and as hard copies in English and Spanish at https://www.chausa.org/store .

 Created in collaboration with physicians, nurses, theologians and ethicists within Catholic health care, the resources are designed to help people of all ages, backgrounds, religious traditions and beliefs make important decisions about serious illness and end-of-life care.

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