An Oregon advance directive is a legal document in which an individual may specify a healthcare agent and intended medical wishes to become active at a future date if the individual were to be faced with a medical event during which they cannot make their own decisions. The documents allow medical personnel to tailor the individual’s end-of-life healthcare to their written wishes. Principals are only deemed incapacitated by medical professionals.
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What’s Included?
Laws
- Living Will – ORS 127.515
- Medical Power of Attorney – ORS 127.510
- Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) – ORS 127.669 – ORS 127.684
Signing Requirements (ORS 127.515(2)(a)) – Two (2) adult witnesses or a notary public.
State Definitions
- Advance Directive (ORS 127.505(2a)) –
- (a) Advance directive means a document executed by a principal that contains:
- (A) A form appointing a health care representative; and
- (B) Instructions to the health care representative.
- (b)Advance directive includes any supplementary document or writing attached by the principal to the document described in paragraph (a) of this subsection.
- (a) Advance directive means a document executed by a principal that contains:
- Health Care Representative (ORS 127.505(13)) means:
- A competent adult appointed to be a health care representative or an alternate health care representative under ORS 127.510 (Appointment of health care representative and alternate health care representative).
- A person who has authority to make health care decisions for a principal under the provisions of ORS 127.635 (Withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures) (2) or (3).
- A guardian or other person, appointed by a court to make health care decisions for a principal.
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