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Chapter 765 of the Florida Statutes, entitled “Health Care Advance Directives” allows you to appoint an agent to make decisions about your treatment if you become incompetent to make decisions.  In Florida, such a person is known as a “Health Care Surrogate”.  The Florida statute also allows you to write instructions about how you would like your mental health care to proceed.  This is known as a “Declaration”.  More information, including a recommended form and information for consumers and Health Care Surrogates, is available from the Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities .
 
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The National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives is a collaboration between The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center and the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, funded by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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