"Get Started" Resources for Your Clients
Use this document to help clients decide what their end-of-life wishes are and how to have end-of-life conversations with those
who matter most.
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Additional Resources
Use this document to help clients choose an advocate who could speak for them and help them
have a say in their health care.
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Directive to Physicians and Family or Surrogates (Living Will)
Use this document to help your clients talk with their
healthcare team.
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Directive to Physicians and Family or Surrogates (Living Will)
Out-of-Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate (OOH DNR) Order
Directive to Physicians and Family or Surrogates (Living Will)
Use this document to help you communicate your end-of-life wishes about medical treatment at some time in the future when you are unable to make your wishes known because of illness or injury.
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Medical Power of Attorney Designation of Health Care Agent (MPoA)
Out-of-Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate (OOH DNR) Order
Out-of-Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate (OOH DNR) Order
Use this document to help your clients document the person your client name names as their agent and gives them the authority to make any and all health care decisions for your client in accordance with their respective wishes, including their religious and moral beliefs, when they are no longer capable of making these decisions themselves.
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Out-of-Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate (OOH DNR) Order
Out-of-Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate (OOH DNR) Order
Out-of-Hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate (OOH DNR) Order
Use this document to help your clients instruct emergency medical personnel and other health care professionals to forgo resuscitation attempts and to permit the patient to have a natural death with peace and dignity. This order does NOT affect the provision of other emergency care, including
comfort care.
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"Next Step" Resources for Your Clients
Body Disposition Authorization
Appointment for Disposition of Remains
Appointment for Disposition of Remains
Your client will use this document to declare and direct what is to be done with
their body after death.
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Appointment for Disposition of Remains
Appointment for Disposition of Remains
Appointment for Disposition of Remains
Your client will use this document to appoint the person they want to control what will be done with their remains after death.
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Dementia Directives
Appointment for Disposition of Remains
Dementia Directives
Your client will use this document to direct those who matter most and healthcare providers on how they wish to be
treated based on the stage of
dementia they are experiencing.
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Donate Life Texas
What Matters Most to Me
Dementia Directives
You can help your client contact Donate Life Texas to safely and securely document their decision to become a tissue, eye, and organ donor. Donate Life Texas is the only
official donor registry in Texas.
My Health Checklist
What Matters Most to Me
What Matters Most to Me
A Guide to Help Your Clients Prepare
for a Medical Appointment. Available in Spanish in late summer.
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What Matters Most to Me
What Matters Most to Me
What Matters Most to Me
A Workbook for People with Serious Illness
This Workbook is designed to help people with a serious illness get ready to talk to their health care team (doctor, nurse, social worker, etc.) about what is most
important to them.
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Additional Resources for CHWs
A Better Death
Statewide survey finds Black and Latino respondents experience more barriers to end-of-life care than their white counterparts and most Texans lack preparation for end-of-life care and decisions.
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Collaboration and Support
