{"id":3189,"date":"2014-04-16T11:23:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T15:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hearthsidehome.wpengine.com\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2014-04-16T11:23:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T15:23:58","slug":"friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/2014\/04\/16\/friends\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Help from Our Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_57\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2010\/09\/HearthstoneHomeHealth.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-57\" alt=\"Because You Love Them, Plan Ahead\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2010\/09\/HearthstoneHomeHealth-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Because You Love Them, Plan Ahead<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Plan ahead, because you love them. We get by with a little help from our friends! See a professional legal counselor about setting and keeping updated your advance directive\/living will, and health care power of attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Adults can benefit from thinking about what their healthcare choices\u00a0 would be if they\u00a0become unable to speak for themselves.\u00a0 These decisions\u00a0 can be written down in an advance directive so that others know what\u00a0 they are.\u00a0 Advance directives come in two main forms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A\u00a0 &#8220;healthcare power of attorney&#8221; <em>(or &#8220;proxy&#8221; or &#8220;agent&#8221; or &#8220;surrogate&#8221;) <\/em> documents the person you select to be your voice for your healthcare\u00a0 decisions if you cannot speak for yourself.<\/li>\n<li>A &#8220;living will&#8221; documents what kinds of medical treatments you would or would not want at the end of life.<\/li>\n<li>Again, once more, don&#8217;t forget to consult with a professional legal counselor regarding these documents!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plan ahead, because you love them. We get by with a little help from our friends! See a professional legal counselor about setting and keeping updated your advance directive\/living will, and health care power of attorney. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[657,658,659,660,661,662,441],"class_list":["post-3189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1blog","tag-advance-directive","tag-end-of-life","tag-health-care-power-of-attorney","tag-legal","tag-living-will","tag-plan-ahead","tag-power-of-attorney"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstlighthomecare.com\/home-healthcare-guilford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}