Advance Directives
While receiving care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, you will need to make many decisions regarding various aspects of your medical treatment. The best medical decisions for you involve both expert advice from doctors, nurses and other clinicians, as well as your personal beliefs and values. Communicating those beliefs and values in a situation when you cannot do that for yourself is the purpose of advance care directives, which include health care proxies and living wills.
To obtain a copy of a health care proxy form, please call a Dana-Farber social worker at (617) 632-3301 or a patient representative at (617) 632-3417.
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization also offers health care proxy and living will forms for each state on its Caring Connections Web site.