Advance Health Care Directives

An advance health care directive involves the setting out of specific instructions regarding your health care treatment or setting out general principles regarding the type of health care you would want in the event that you cannot make decisions for yourself. Select the links below for more information on the topic.

• Advance Health Care Directives Information,
• Advance Health Care Directives Act, Newfoundland and Labrador
• Sample Advance Health Directives
  

- for Catholics specifically - MS Word (Save to your desktop to begin creating your own)

- for Christians generally - MS Word (Save to your desktop to begin creating your own)

Once you finalize your advance health care directive please remember to create a business type card to carry with you at all times in your wallet or your purse indicating that you have an advance health care directive and its location.

The information above has been provided for your convenience only. It should not be taken to be an exhaustive discussion of the topic and is provided only as a starting point for your consideration. We hope that the information provided may help as you begin to prepare your own personalized advance health care directive.