Advance Care Planning: What You Should Know

In the event that you are unable to make your own decisions about medical care, advance care planning helps assure that your wishes are honored. Advance care planning begins by talking with your family and other trusted individuals, such as close friends, your doctors, and your attorney. 

Preferred Care offers an Advance Care Planning booklet to help you plan for future medical care. This booklet provides information about, and forms for, the following Advance Care Directives:

• Health Care Proxy
• Power of Attorney
• Living Will
• Do Not Resuscitate orders

Preferred Care strongly recommends that you speak with your doctor and attorney before completing these forms, in order to best specify your desires and wishes.

• Click Here to view/print an Advance Care Planning Booklet (pdf)
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For more copies of this booklet, call Preferred Care Member Services. 
Representatives are available to serve you Monday through Friday,
from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time at (585) 325-3113 or (800) 950-3224. 
TTY users may call (585) 325-2629 or (800) 252-2452. 

Posted: May 2005