Life Planning: Planning Ahead for Future Health
Needs
Planning ahead for future medical decision-making is truly a
gift to your family
The State Bar of Wisconsin, the State Medical Society of Wisconsin
and the Wisconsin Health and Hospital Association, with support from
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center, have joined forces in a statewide
public service campaign to promote future health care planning. Through
our partnership we have produced a consumer guide, A Gift
to Your Family: Planning Ahead for Future Health
Needs, to assist you with future health care planning.
All too often, families are put in the unfortunate position of
needing to make decisions about their loved ones' health care. If you
have not discussed your wishes with your family or your clients, these
decisions become all the more difficult.
We hope to encourage you to execute a Power of Attorney for Health
Care or a Declaration to Physicians (Living Will) in a time of
noncrisis, and invite you to consider organ and tissue donation as you
discuss health care issues with your family.
A Gift to Your Family includes Wisconsin state forms to help
you put your wishes in writing, after you have talked with your family.
Your attorney, physician and other health care professionals can answer
your questions and help you complete the necessary forms.
