If you don’t have advance directives in order, learn about how AzHDR works and how these important documents can impact you and the lives of your family members.
This document outlines, in writing, your wishes regarding medical treatment in the event you are not able to communicate directly with your healthcare providers.
This document records the person you choose to make healthcare decisions if you can no longer make those decisions yourself. This person is called an “agent.”
Allows and directs your chosen “agent” to make decisions for you regarding behavioral health placement and treatment if you no longer have capacity to do so yourself.
A document signed by you and a licensed healthcare professional that informs emergency personnel not to use means to resuscitate you.
Making decisions about healthcare can seem daunting. It’s uncomfortable, because it asks us to contemplate the most difficult moments of our lives—and imagine a time when we can no longer make decisions for ourselves.
We’d like to remove the stigma of talking about critical healthcare decisions. Discussing, sharing, documenting and registering our wishes ensures that we stay in control of our care—and relieves loved ones and healthcare professionals from making decisions for us.
We believe that every Arizonan should receive the healthcare they want, even when they can no longer speak for themselves. That’s why we developed the Arizona Healthcare Directives Registry (AzHDR).
All too often, Arizonans don’t have their healthcare wishes documented—or if they do, the forms can’t be found when they are needed. We’re striving to encourage every Arizonan to discuss, document and register their end-of-life and critical care preferences.
Community partners from across the state donated their valuable time, energy, expertise and resources to help make the AzHDR a game-changer in how Arizonans complete and share their advance directives.
Working together as a community, we can ensure that no matter where or when someone faces the moment they cannot communicate, their advance directives are registered, accessible and honored.
(8:40) Detailed video about the Arizona Healthcare Directives Registry (AzHDR) and advance directive documents in Arizona.
Here are some short videos to answer initial questions you have about your directives.
When working through advance care planning, you may encounter some unfamiliar words. Here’s a listing of all the terminology you’ll encounter.
In healthcare, the significance of advance directives cannot be overstated. That’s why Contexture has worked with several organizations and partners around Arizona over the last four years to develop the Arizona Healthcare Directives Registry (AzHDR)
We’ve summarized an alphabet’s worth of helpful information to help you navigate your way through advance care planning. A is for Advance Directives…
Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adults, regardless of age, diagnosis, and health status. Too often, these conversations are not had until there is a medical crisis or not at all, because the window to have informed conversations is lost.
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The truth is that those who assist others with completing advance care directives have no higher completion rate than the public. Instead, start with your own.
Conversations we thought we would have often go unspoken. We can maintain control if we plan ahead, think about our goals and values around our healthcare and treatment options, and communicate and document these wishes.
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What are advance directives