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"This time, with a PAD, I did not receive any treatments that I did not want. They were very respectful.  I really felt like the hospital took better care of me because I had my PAD. In fact, I think it's the best care that I've ever received.” Click for more...

 
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Title 16, Article 36 of the Indiana Code allows you to use a PAD to document preferences about, and consent to: (1) admission to hospital, (2) the use of restraint, (3) seclusion, (4) electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and/or (5) mental health counseling.  In order to do this, you must also appoint a health care agent if you have not done so before.  This person known in Indiana as a “health care representative”. There is no standard form, although your documentation must meet the formal requirements.
 
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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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