Address mental health care in your estate plan with a psychiatric advance directive [Video]

If your family has history of mental illness, you may be wondering if there’s a way to memorialize your wishes in your estate plan in the event a psychiatric episode renders you unable to make decisions about your treatment. A psychiatric advance directive may be the answer. Around half of the states have psychiatric advance directive statutes, which authorize special advance directives to outline one’s wishes with respect to mental health care and appoint a representative to make decisions regarding that care. A psychiatric advance directive may address a variety of mental health care issues, including treatment therapies and medications that may (or may not) be administered.

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