Program Description
Event Details
Presentation by End Of Life Options New Mexico at the Main Library
A Key Step in Empowered Aging: Advance Healthcare Planning and the Advance Care Directive
Many of us have thoughts and fears about what might happen to us at the end of our lives. Have you identified who will champion your wishes if you can no longer speak for yourself? Will you be able to have an end-of-life experience that maintains your sense of dignity and reflects your values? A key step toward making your wishes clear is to complete an advance health care directive. End of Life Options New Mexico will offer some easy steps to help you start the process of completing this document. They will offer a brief presentation on what advance directives are and what they do, then provide print and online resources that can guide you. Come get support at our next meeting.
At End of Life Options New Mexico, we provide support and education for advance care planning to ensure people have a clear understanding of their rights and all the options available to them in New Mexico, including medical aid in dying.
We are a service provider and our role is to provide information, resources and education. We are NOT a clinical provider, we do not give medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment or legal advice.
Specifically, we do:
- Provide resources to assist with advance care planning;
- Provide referrals and resources to support end-of-life decision-making;
- Inform the public, community leaders and the media about end- of-life issues;
- Educate residents about their rights to choose from the full range of end-of-life care options, including medical aid in dying;
- Educate healthcare providers so they can inform their patients about end-of-life options and provide the care their patients want; and
- Assist healthcare systems and hospices as they support their patients’ end-of-life decisions.
End of Life Options
What are your options at end of life?
- Continue Treatment – Pursue life-sustaining treatments
- Forgo or Cease Treatment – Declining or stopping life-sustaining treatment
- Palliative Care Specialized care focusing on relief of symptoms and help with treatment decisions
- Hospice Care End-of-life comfort care, mostly in the home, focusing on quality of life and family support
- Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) Refusing any food or liquids to hasten death under medical supervision
- Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) Eligible adults requesting a prescription for life-ending medication from a qualified provider
EOLO Act
- About the End of Life Options Act – An overview of how it works and what you need to know. Learn more.
- Eligibility – Who is eligible to utilize the End of Life Options Act? Learn more.
- Steps for Using the EOLO Act. A checklist. Learn more.
- About Judge Elizabeth Whitefield. Learn more.
- Aid in Dying Laws. Learn more.
- EOLO Act for Individuals and families. Learn more.
- Frequently Asked Questions for individuals and families. Learn more.
- End of Life Options Act for Providers. Learn more.
- Provider Training. Learn more.
- Frequently Asked Questions for Providers. Learn more.
Advance Care Planning
- Advance Care Planning – Learn more
- Advance Directives – Learn more
- Healthcare Agents – Learn more.
- Dementia Directives – Learn more
- Medical Orders – Learn more
- NMMOST – New Mexico Medical Order for Scope of Treatment – Learn more
- DNR – Do Not Resuscitate DNR – Learn more
This program is part of the Age-Friendly Santa Fe Initiative.
Learn more at www.santafenm.gov/agefriendly.