Are you Protected? Living Wills and Will to Live

While we think it will never happen to us, we may find ourselves in a medical emergency and incapicatated and unable to express our healthcare wishes. It is important that you and your family members state right now, in full competency, what your healthcare wishes are and who will make decisions in your absence.

There a few documents that you should know about:

• Louisiana Declaration Concerning Life-Sustaining Treatment- this document allows you as a patient to state whether you do or do not want nutrition and hydration to be administered in case you are terminally ill and in a irreversible situation.