Colorado Healthcare Power of Attorney and Advanced Directive

Colorado Medical Durable Power of Attorney and Advance Health Care Directive

Protect your voice and make your health-care wishes known—even if you become unable to communicate them yourself.

This Colorado-specific document allows you to appoint a trusted Health Care Agent and Successor Agent to make medical decisions on your behalf when you lack decisional capacity. It also allows you to record clear instructions concerning life-sustaining treatment, artificial nutrition and hydration, comfort care, and other important medical choices.

This comprehensive document includes:

• Health Care Agent and Successor Agent appointments
• General medical decision-making authority
• HIPAA and medical-record authorization
• Life-sustaining treatment choices
• Artificial nutrition and hydration instructions
• Pain relief and comfort-care directions
• Autopsy preferences
• Organ and tissue donation selections
• Funeral and disposition wishes
• Additional instructions and limitations
• Agent duties
• Guardian nomination
• Revocation and reliance provisions
• Colorado governing-law provisions
• Two-witness and notary execution options

The document is designed with the Colorado Patient Autonomy Act, C.R.S. §§ 15-14-503 through 15-14-509, and the Colorado Medical Treatment Decision Act, C.R.S. §§ 15-18-101 through 15-18-113, in mind.

Digital Download — No physical product will be mailed.

Important Notice: This template provides general legal information for self-help document preparation. It is not legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship. Consider consulting a Colorado-licensed attorney or qualified health-care professional if you have complex medical circumstances, conflicting advance directives, special end-of-life instructions, or questions about completing the document.