Planning Advanced Healthcare Directive

 I read my 2021 Advanced Healthcare Directive. When I was a 77-year-old youngster, I signed one of those "boilerplate" templates. I didn't read all 13 pages of the document closely that I got (and paid for) from "Trust & Will." It mostly stated all the priorities of most people. After two serious illnesses with stays in the hospital, my priorities changed.

I felt a need to write an AHD that was concise and straightforward, one that medical supporters and my family could easily read and understand.  I asked ChatGPT.

As an octogenarian, dementia is a concern. I read the 2017 article about the Journal of the American Medical Association, followed by their recommended directive. It had components that I did not want in my document. I prompted ChatGPT to write an ADH focused on dementia with my priorities.

I studied both these AHD dementia templates and concluded that my concise AHD included my "Wants" and "Not Wants", which would be verifiable in these dementia templates.