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The Indiana Code no longer recognizes “healthcare power of attorney” term.
As of January 1, 2023, any new advance healthcare directives should utilize the term “Healthcare Representative.” The terms “Healthcare Power of Attorney” or “Medical Power of Attorney” are no longer legally valid in Indiana. Many internet sites and sources of free legal forms continue to provide outdated information and forms for Indiana.
- Download legally valid advance directive forms from the Advance Directive Forms section of this website or from the Indiana Department of Health Advance Directives Resource Center.
- Click here for a PDF of the specific Indiana code addressing this subject: IC 30-5-5-16.
Visit the Indiana General Assembly website for the complete and current Indiana Code.
The American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging on has developed many healthcare decision-making resources for professionals and consumers in the form of books, brochures, legislation, tracking charts, and research. Below are a few selected resources from the American Bar Association website: www.americanbar.org
- ABA – Advance Directives: Counseling Guide for Lawyers This guide is designed to assist lawyers and healthcare professionals in formulating end-of-life health decision plans that are clearly written and effective. The guide may be ordered from the ABA website or downloaded. Sections of the guide may also be downloaded.
- ABA – Advance Care Planning Principles Summary
- ABA - Bridging the Lawyer-Clinician Gap in Advance Care Planning A chasm exists between the way lawyers and clinicians perceive and engage in healthcare advance planning with clients and patients, respectively. Both aim to ensure that the individual’s goals of care and wishes are known and clearly honored. But their perspectives and processes used to reach those goals differ dramatically. This article describes an interdisciplinary project to develop a unified set of practice principles for both lawyers and clinicians and an advance care planning practice checklist specifically for lawyers that brings counseling practices more in alignment with the clinical realities that clients face.
- ABA - A New Advance Care Planning Tool for Lawyers A handy checklist helps lawyers counsel clients and bridge the gap between lawyers and healthcare providers.
- ABA - Advance Care Planning Checklist for Lawyers (pdf)
- ABA – Healthcare Decision Making - Resources for consumers and attorneys
- ABA - Elder Law Resources and Research
- ABA - Consumer Tool Kit for Health Care Advance Planning
- ABA - Making Decisions for Someone Else Published by the ABA Commission on Law and Aging, this guide is for anyone serving in the role of healthcare decision maker for someone else.
- ABA - Myths and Facts of Advance Care Planning
- ABA – Advance Care Planning Resources for Clients
Improving Medical-Legal Advance Care Planning - This article from the National Institute of Health describes the historical disconnects between the medical and legal practice of ACP, recommendations and products of the interprofessional panel, and recommendations for future medical-legal collaboration.
PREPARE for Your Care. PREPARE offers easy to read, legally binding advance directives for all fifty states in multiple languages.
The Conversation Project. The Conversation Project® is a public engagement initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), seeking to help everyone talk about their wishes for care through the end of life, so those wishes can be understood and respected. It has a variety of free guides and resources, including ones focused on specific situations such as dementia and coping with serious illness in children.
