Personal Planning

Help With Your Personal Planning


It's About You is a video introduction to the importance of completing an advance directive and the considerations for doing so.

Advance Directives: Advance Directives are legal documents written and signed by you that allow you to communicate decisions and wishes about medical care to family, friends and health care professionals in the event that you are no longer able to make those decisions.

Why do you need an advance directive? We spend an enormous amount of time planning birthday parties, weddings and other events but how many of us spend even a quarter of that time planning and discussing what WE would want when we are facing future medical decisions, including end-of-life preferences? Do our families know our wishes, desires, values? By having and documenting a conversation about our wishes, we remove guilt, fear and questions faced by family member(s) who may be in a position to make decisions for us.

Talk and plan, do it for yourself and the people close to you. View a video by Honoring Choices Wisconsin, a major initiative to promote the benefits of and process for advanced care planning.

If you’ve been wanting to finish your power of attorney for health care, but you’re not sure how to start. We’re here to help!

The ADRC has staff available on Wednesday mornings to assist Kenosha County residents (age 18 and older) in completing the Wisconsin Power of Attorney for Health Care and discuss the considerations and options. Please call 262-605-6646 or contact one of the other community resources available to offer support. 

Learn more!  The WI Networking Coalition: A Message About Advance Directives - YouTube

Guardianship: Guardianship is a legal process that is utilized when an individual is unable to make or communicate safe or sound decisions about his/her person and/or property.

File of Life is a tool for documenting personal health information and communicating that with first responders if needed. The form for File of Life is available to download and save to a local computer to maintain a legible, accurate document as things change. Call 262-605-6646 and ask us to mail you a red magnetic case to store on your refrigerator.

File of Life