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🧠 What Is a Personal Directive (PD)?

A Personal Directive allows you to outline your wishes for personal care if you lose mental capacity. These wishes can be:

✅ General — like where you want to live
✅ Specific — such as pain management, life support, or religious-based medical preferences
✅ Organ donation — best included in your PD, as it’s more likely to be accessed quickly than your Will

📌 Don’t forget to register with the Organ Donation Registry of Alberta and keep your preferences up to date!

🕒 When does a PD take effect?
Only when you lose mental capacity — and it ends if you regain capacity, pass away, or if a Guardianship Order is granted.

⚠️ A PD does not give authority while you still have capacity. If you need help making decisions while capable, options like a Supportive or Co-Decision Maker may be more appropriate (these require separate applications).

💡 Like a POA, if no PD exists and capacity is lost, a Guardianship Order can be applied for. If granted, it will cancel any existing PD.

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Created on: 2026-01-07 18:00:12