Advance health care directives - A superpower for your health care decisions

Advance health care directives

A superpower for your healthcare decisions

Click the following links to use DYOdocs to create a free report on the legal documents you need as part of

your will-based estate plan or your trust-based estate and asset protection plan

and why it’s essential to have legal expertise you can trust

with Ross Holmes Virtual Lawyers Limited legal advice.

They can be signed at Ross Holmes Lawyers Limited’s offices, or via Zoom using Ross Holmes Lawyers takeaway service.

Step 1: Clarity

  • At Ross Holmes Virtual Lawyers Limited, we believe that the pillars of a great advance health care directive are clarity, planning, and communication.

    An advance health care directive enables you to record your wishes regarding your medical treatment if you become unable to communicate or make decisions for yourself.

  • Under the Health and Disability Commissioner (Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights) Regulations 1996 if you have diminished competence health care providers must take into account the views detailed in your advance health care directives. 

    In New Zealand, wishes for assisted dying are invalid if they're included in advance health care directives.

Step 2: Planning

  • With an advance health care directive, you can plan for your future by recording your doctors' details, your wishes as to treatment if you're on a life-support system, your preferences for palliative care, the use of your body for medical research, and organ donations.

  • This allows your welfare attorney, your loved ones, and doctors to be aware of your directives on these important matters, so they can make decisions in accordance with your directives.

  • Planning for the future can be a daunting task, but with Ross Holmes Virtual Lawyers Limited by your side, you can have peace of mind knowing that your medical treatment will be carried out according to your wishes.

Step 3: Communication

  • Your loved ones and doctors can be made aware of your directives on these important matters, ensuring that your wishes are carried out in accordance with your directives.

  • You can choose to use our DYOdocs online software that allows you to create your own legal documents at a substantially discounted cost, with detailed signing instructions.

  • At Ross Holmes Virtual Lawyers Limited, we make it easy for you to create a great advance health care directive. You can also omplete our online form,, and our team of lawyers will check and correct the documents. You can then sign the documents at our offices or have them couriered to you with detailed signing instructions for signature at your home.

Disclaimer: This article should not be relied upon for legal advice. Always seek professional legal advice before making any decisions regarding your business.