This document summarizes an advance medical directive webinar presentation. It discusses the key components of advance medical directives including durable power of attorney, living wills, and organ donation directives. It also summarizes a landmark Virginia Supreme Court case on withdrawing life-prolonging treatment from patients in a persistent vegetative state. The document provides guidance on drafting, executing, and revoking advance medical directives.

1. ADVANCE MEDICAL DIRECTIVES: YOUR RIGHT TO DECIDE Presenter: Robert Bullock, Esq. THE ELDER AND DISABILITY LAW CENTER Moderator: E. Ayn Welleford, PhD VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY This webinar presentation, including the slides, is not designed or intended as legal advice or counsel nor is it intended to create an attorney-client relationship.

8. AMD – THREE INTEGRAL COMPONENTS I Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare Decisions II Living Will III Organ Donation/ Comfort Care/ Autopsy

9. DECLARANT AGENT *This agent should not be confused with the agent you appoint under a durable power of attorney. A durable power of attorney does not allow your agent to make medical decisions on your behalf. I Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare Decisions

12. Living Will allows you to determine what life-prolonging procedures* you would like administered when you are determined to have a terminal condition or are in a persistent vegetative state and are unable to communicate your wishes. Life-prolonging procedures = treatments that are designed to prolong the patient’s life when it has been determined that the patient will not recover and that their death is imminent or they are in a persistent vegetative state. II Living Will

15. EXECUTING AN ADVANCE MEDICAL DIRECTIVE

22. Q&A TO ASK A QUESTION, SIMPLY CLICK ON THE “QUESTIONS” TAB OF THE WEBINAR’S DASHBOARD AND ENTER IT THERE. After the session, you may also address questions to Mr. Bullock by emailing rbullock@edlc.com Our next webinar is scheduled for the 8 th of April, and focuses on MEDICARE