'Nite' of the Living Will

November 1, 10:00am - 11:00am
Mānoa Campus, Law School Clinical Building located at 2485 Dole Street and Via Zoom

On Wednesday November 1, during the week of Halloween, The UH Law School Elder Law Program (UHELP) and Elder Law Clinic will again offer the popular “Nite of the Living Will.” This free program is open to the public in the new Clinical Building of the Law School and via Zoom. The focus of the program will be on end-of-life medical treatment decisions and advance care planning. Older persons, their families and service providers along with health care professionals may particularly be interested, although the entire community should benefit from the information provided. Faculty, staff and students are all welcome. Law School students will be attending as part of their study of these complex issues. The discussion will include informed consent/informed refusal, surrogate decision-making, advance directives, including individual instructions for health care, and durable powers of attorney for health care, plus Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST). Again this year, there will be an overview of the Hawai`i's Our Care, Our Choice law, enacted by the 2018 Legislature, which became effective in January 2019 and modified in 2023. The Act allows qualified patients in Hawai`i with a medically confirmed terminal illness, who are predicted to have less than six months to live, and who possess decision-making capacity, to request and obtain a prescription to end the qualified patient's life. Space is limited--please call or email to reserve a seat or, you may wish to attend via Zoom. https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/96130457637 Password 706026 The Clinical Building is adjacent to the Law School and the entrance is on the corner of Dole Street and Lower Campus Road. Very limited parking is available for $5 in lot 20 in the quarry parking structure.


Event Sponsor
Law, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Lenora H Lee, 808-956-6544, lenoral@hawaii.edu,

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