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Everybody needs a Proxy™
Everybody Needs a Proxy is a community-based campaign initiated and organized by the Westchester End-of-Life Coalition to promote the signing of Health Care Proxies in Westchester. The campaign is directed at community, educational and civic organizations, as well as businesses and individuals. …READ MORE…
Questions about NY State Health Care Proxies
The source for the information below is the New York State Department of Health page.
The New York Health Care Proxy Law allows you to appoint someone you trust – for example, a family member or close friend – to make health care decisions for you if you lose the ability to make decisions yourself. By appointing a health care agent, you can make sure that health care providers follow your wishes. Your agent can also decide how your wishes apply as your medical condition changes. Hospitals, doctors and other health care providers must follow your agent’s decisions as if they were your own. You may give the person you select as your health care agent as little or as much authority as you want. You may allow your agent to make all health care decisions or only certain ones. You may also give your agent instructions that he or she has to follow. This form can also be used to document your wishes or …READ MORE…
Speakers’ Bureau
The Westchester End-of-Life Coalition can bring end-of-life education to your community group.
We will help you find speakers and discussion facilitators who will come to your agency, community center or congregation to talk about end-of-life issues.
Examples of topics that are often requested:
· Advance Directives
· Communicating about …READ MORE…
Useful Web Sites
End of Life: Topics and Organizations Links
Aging with Dignity
Five Wishes approach to Advance Directives
Americans for Better Care of the Dying
Advocacy group to improve care at the end of life.
Caring Connections
A program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), Caring Connections is a national consumer engagement initiative …READ MORE…
Schiavo case points to need for health-care proxies, living wills
By RICHARD LIEBSON
THE JOURNAL NEWS
Local lawyers and health advocates say the life-and-death decisions being debated in the Terri Schiavo case should serve as a reminder to people of the importance of drawing up living wills and health-care proxies.
“It’s definitely raising public awareness,” Peekskill lawyer Donald Singer said. He said he’s provided several clients with health-care proxies. …READ MORE…
Unanticipated Turns
By THE JOURNAL NEWS
THE JOURNAL NEWS
In what might seem a case of the tail wagging the dog, the Westchester End-of-Life Coalition is embarking upon a new initiative to get county residents to take responsibility for what happens at the end of their lives.
In tandem with the Sarah Lawrence College Health Advocacy Program, the coalition is drawing attention to New York’s underused Health Care Proxy Law, which allows people 18 and over to appoint someone they trust to make health-care decisions …READ MORE…
Group urges signing of health care proxies
BY HOPE SALLEY
REVIEW PRESS
Liz Moran’s 42-year-old husband recently had a critical heart attack.
Fortunately, he recovered, but she found out later from her husband that what she thought he wanted wasn’t his wishes at all.
The End-of-Life Coalition, based in Bronxville, is using this true story about an area couple to promote the importance of health care proxies …READ MORE…