The elder law program will again offer its popular Nite of the Living Will program on Halloween Eve, Tuesday, October 30. This year’s focus is on end-of-life medical treatment decisions and advance-care planning, including an overview of the Act 2 “Our Care, Our Choice” law, enacted by the 2018 Legislature that becomes effective January 2019.
The free public event, which starts at 1 p.m. in the Davis Levin Livingston Moot Court Room at the , is aimed at elders, family caregivers and service providers.
“This will help you communicate your wishes for end-of-life care, as well as to find out more about Hawaiʻi‘s new law on medically assisted dying,” said Professor , director of the elder law program.
Discussion will include informed consent and informed refusal; surrogate decision-making; advance directives, including individual instructions for health care; and durable powers of attorney for health care, plus provider orders for life-sustaining treatment.
Act 2 allows qualified patients in Hawaiʻi with a medically confirmed terminal illness, who are predicted to have less than six months to live and who possess decision-making capacity, to determine their own medical care at the end of their lives. It allows a qualified patient to request and obtain a prescription to end the qualified patient’s life.
To save a seat, call (808) 956-6544 or email help.edu@gmail.com.
—By Beverly Creamer