What's Old is New Again, or Oregon's Advance Directive Got a Facelift and Why it Matters to You

Panelists: Kevin Dirksen M.Div., MSc, HEC-C; Woody English, M.D.; Jennifer Hopping, MSW, LCSW; Nicholas Kockler, Ph.D., MS, HEC-C Recorded: June 21, 2022 Series: Andy & Bev Honzel Endowed Chair in Applied Health Care Ethics Lecture Despite Oregon’s relatively pioneering status of having one of the first statewide Advance Directives, this form has remained locked in statute – that is, a law needs to be passed just to update the form – for decades. Significant clinical, ethical, and legal efforts have been devoted toward updating Oregon’s Advance Directive by a coalition of lawyers, health care providers, ethicists, and other stakeholders resulting in a new Advance Directive in Oregon and a process for iteratively updating this important document in the future. This interdisciplinary panel will provide clinicians and caregivers with a summary of the relevant changes at a state level, explain how the new Oregon Advance Directive improves on the prior iteration, and describe where it impacts the work of promoting effective advance care planning for patients.