Advance Directive: Planning Issues

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1. With an Advance Directive (AD), you can accept or refuse medical care. There are many issues to address, including

  a. dialysis
  b. breathng mashines
  c. tube feeding
  d. all or any of the three
2. Patients are ___ entitled to complete information about their illness and how it may affect their lives
  a. not
  b. fully
  c. sometimes
  d. often
3. __ are the legal documents, such as the living will, durable power of attorney and health care proxy, which allow people to convey their decisions about end-of-life care ahead of time.
  a. Advanced Directives
  b. Advance Directive
  c. Directives
  d. all 3
4. Ideally, the process of discussing and writing advance directives should be ___
  a. done in 2 hours
  b. done in one sitting
  c. done with the family presetn
  d. ongoing
5. A ___ is important so that patients can give instructions about distribution of their money and property when they die.

  a. Advance Directive
  b. will
  c. living will
  d. notarized instruction
6. A decision not to receive "aggressive medical treatment" is ___ the same as withholding all medical care.
  a. not
  b. always
  c. often
  d. generally
7. A health care proxy is an agent (a ____) appointed to make a patient's medical decisions if the patient is unable to do so.
  a. Advance Directive
  b. paper
  c. person
  d. living will
8. Although a lawyer is not needed to complete advance directives, it is important to be aware that each state has ____ laws for creating advance directives.
  a. the same
  b. its own
  c. identical
  d. any of the 3
9. Predicting what treatments patients will want at the end of life is complicated by the patient's ___.

  a. age
  b. illness
  c. ability of medicine to sustain life.

  d. all 3
10. Less than ___ percent of the severely or terminally ill patients studied had an advance directive in their medical record
  a. 30
  b. 40
  c. 50
  d. 60
11. Only ___ percent of patients with an advance directive had received input from their physician in its development
  a. 2
  b. 12
  c. 22
  d. 32
12. The majority of people who die in the United States (____ to ____ percent) are Medicare beneficiaries age 65 and over, and most die from chronic conditions such as heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and renal failure
  a. 60-65
  b. 70-75
  c. 80-85
  d. 90-95