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Client Therese Johnson of Sacramento Transcription. Jim: Therese Johnson of Senior Care of Sacramento, Therese how are you doing? Therese Johnson: Hi Jim I’m doing good, and I wanna thank you for sharing that poem I love the dash, I’m gonna be working on some of my dashes this week with the getting the data to my brothers who I’m having a chance to have much time with. Jim: Wow well this is great, well you know I hope you get some quality time and I’m sure you will, now today I know we have very special topic we’re gonna be talking about a few of the four missed related to Advanced Directive and basically this is a very important thing to understand and what we wanna do is just really understand them because there are missed about Advanced Directive and so I wanna turn it over to you to talk about this now first stop I just want for those of does unaware for you to share what an Advanced Directive is. Therese Johnson: So basically there any legal documents that will tell others what to do if something should happen to you. Jim: Okay. Therese Johnson: And I mean they be the answer does can be several different documents including a living well and a medical power of attorney but you need to make sure that your wishes are carried out if you become incapacitated and that what this document do for you. Jim: Great and I know about the advanced health care directive there very important to get in place, especially if somebody still little cognitive is best time to do it to put it in place before your love one is not really cognitive anymore, so if you can tells us a little bit about the 3 of the 4 please. Therese Johnson: Yeah and absolutely like you said when you’re growing older and you start considering things like nursing home or assisted living possible hospice then it’s vital that you have the proper medical advanced directive in place, the problems is there’s quite bit of confusion about advanced directive and what they can or cannot do and as a result some people had been careful of having the documents thrown-up but one of the myths is that in Advanced Directive is not valid if the state form aren’t filled-out but in actuality the vast majority state don’t even have forms, so that’s not something you really have to worry about as long as you have the Advanced Directive written down and completed then doctors are obligated to follow them, there really are no state forms to filled-out to make them legally valid so that’s one of the myth and then the 2nd myth is that Advanced Directive are always legally binding and that’s not necessarily true if the doctor determine that something would be medically inappropriate or with go against their consciences a caregiver then they can choose not to follow your Advanced Directive, so basically the Directive is design to give your doctor protection from the family if they follow through with your wishes so that’s the 2nd myth and another reason why it’s so important to have then in place. Jim: And what is the 3rd we got you can’t leave as hanging to much here at least 1 more and we have a few more words. Therese Johnson: Okay the 3rd myths is that threats we will all be stop if I have a living will and some people don’t want to continue to remind when the near end of life so if you’re one of this people then keep in mind that you don’t technically nearly in well for this to happen, however your family members will be the one to make decision that could mean dispute and stress for them and your siblings fighting or whoever is your power of attorney or not and so by having a living well in place everything will already be decided coz you’ve already said what your wishes are. Jim: Now let me ask you this you say medical professions on the 2nd one that they can be override the decision is that correct? Did I hear you correct? Therese Johnson: Yes a doctor can that’s true. Jim: Okay and let me ask this I know it’s very important to put things in the place where before a situation happens but what’s where the situations have you been through where you haven’t seen the right things put in the place. Therese Johnson: Well for example one family the son had power of attorney and had the mother’s advance health care directive word she had express we said that she did wanna kept alive on life support or extreme haven’t he wrote measures or feeding to gene thing like that well she had a stroke and the paramedics came and they brought her back to life but basically her brain was dead so they put around a feeding tube and the son wasn’t real clear on what her wishes where that’s another thing that you impart you need to make sure that the person get up train you really understand what’s their job is and so she was kept alive feeding tube but her brain was dead for a few more days and then finally after he realize that that was not her wish he took her off so but he understood that’s begin with the family basically all the other brothers & sisters had watch her kind of die 2time, so they would not been put your dad emotional stress and that lingering of the whole situation it could been resolve immediately if you’d understood her wishes. Jim: Is very important one of things that I was talking to some other professionals a license in the arena of just financial services and working with seniors is really different, you know you have to a lot more careful which is really important coz I try there really take a lot of care make sure, there’s a 3rd party there as well to validate things and is so easy unfortunately for people to take advantage of seniors and I think getting this things in place are so very important even families with good intentions, I’ve seen them really go a ride because a right things we’re not put in the place I know there were some cases where should some maybe be kept alive on life support or not this different directives, there she put them in place and you have someone’s wish or desires in front of you they really help and so I encourage people one practical I would love to give people is if you’re getting older and yours even if your younger right out what you would want people to remember about you, now that is just something that when you do past it could just be read and I know there’s some things that I want you remembered by in that way people know exactly what you want to express and what your life meant and what you wanted to convey, so I’m encourage you take-out a piece of paper right that down and contact somebody like Therese Johnson to put some things in place in terms of potential placement or just what your alternatives are in terms of potentially a facility or just how you should go about planning what sort of thing you should look for a signs for when you should make certain loose, any final things you wanna share Therese before we move-on. Therese Johnson: Well just like you said you know I want people to make sure that they communicate their wishes really clearly so that you can ensure everything is carried out how you would like now and in the future and I have a I do have advanced health care directive available if people had been putting that off getting it done they can email me and I’ll be happy to email them the document. Jim: Great well thank you so much and how can people reach you I believe I’ve been directing Senior Care of Sacramento is that where they can find you. Therese Johnson: Yup, .com or if you wanna email me for the document just get- Jim: Great.