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Five Wishes meets the legal requirements for an advance directive in Connecticut. Just like in 41 other states, you can use Five Wishes in Connecticut to express how you want to be treated if you are seriously ill and unable to speak for yourself, using a document that is easy to understand. All you need to do is check a box, circle a direction, or write a few sentences. Once it is signed and witnessed, your Five Wishes is a legal document. Additionally, the state of Connecticut has the following instructions regarding an Advance Directive that only applies to residents of certain institutions:
If in a facility operated by the Dept. of M.H. and Addiction Services, one witness must have no affiliation with the facility and one must be a physician or clinical psychologist with specialized training in treating mental illness.
If in a facility operated or licensed by the Dept. of M.R., one witness must have no affiliation with the facility and one must be a physician or clinical psychologist with specialized training in developmental disabilities.
Conn. Gen. Stat. §19a-576(b) and (c) (West 2004)
--Excerpted from National Advance Directives: One Attempt to Scale the Barriers, by Charles P. Sabatino, Esq., National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Journal, Volume 1, 2005
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