The Oregon Advance Directive is a written aid to confirm one’s choices concerning medical treatment in the event they can no longer communicate their desires. The document also allocates a nominated individual as attorney-in-fact to select the course of action to take regarding presented medical therapies. The standard arrangement is designed to initiate a plan before health issues may impede the principal’s ability to make their own decisions. Once created, it will assist physicians in indicating how medical situations are to be handled in particular situations, even in cases where the declarant is incapacitated. The completed form requires either a licensed notary public or two (2) witnessing persons supervise signing the paperwork to authorize its confirmation officially.

This document contains the following sections:

Part I: Medical Power of Attorney
Part II: Living Will

Laws

Statutes – Oregon Revised Statutes Title 13, Chapter 127 – Sustaining Treatment Registry; Declarations for Mental Health Treatment; Death with Dignity (§ 127.045 – 127.995)

Definition – “Health care decision” means consent, refusal of consent, or withholding or withdrawal of consent to health care, and includes decisions relating to admission to or discharge from a health care facility (§ 127.505(10)).

Signing Requirements – Legal finalization of the document stipulates that a notary or two (2) viable witnesses be present to oversee the recording of all endorsements (§ 127.515(2)).

Revocation – § 127.772