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Written ahead of time, a health care advance directive is a written document that says how you want medical decisions to be made if you lose the ability to make decisions for yourself. A health care advance directive may include a Living Will and a Durable Power of Attorney for health care.

Nebraska's Advance Mental Health Care Directives Act allows you to state your wishes regarding your mental health care decisions if you lose capacity to make those decisions yourself. The advance mental health care directive is to be in a form that complies with the Act.

This power of attorney authorizes another person (your agent) to make decisions concerning your property for you (you are the ?principal?). Your agent will be able to make decisions and act with respect to your property (including your money) whether or not you are able to act for yourself.

In Nebraska, adults who are capable of making health care decisions generally have the right to say yes or no to medical treatment. As a result, you have the right to prepare a document known as an ?Advance Directive?.

An Advance Directive protects your rights for medical care. All Nebraska Total Care adult members have a right to make Advance Directives for their healthcare decisions. This includes planning treatment before you need it. An Advance Directive tells people what you want if you cannot make your own decisions.

A Nebraska durable statutory power of attorney form allows a person (?principal?) to transfer the power to manage their property and finances to another person (?agent?). The form remains valid only while the principal is alive and does not terminate in the event the principal becomes incapacitated.