New Website: National Resource Center for Psychiatric Advance Directives
The National Resource Center for Psychiatric Advance Directives has started a Web site, www.nrc-pad.org, providing state-by-state PAD information and downloadable forms.
A PAD is prepared when a patient is lucid. “The benefit is that thepatient feels heard,” said Dr. Marvin Swartz, co-director of thecenter. “The patient feels empowered.”
The center was developed by Duke University Medical Center and the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.
PADs are intended for people with a history of severe and persistentmental illness such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder — about 3percent of the population.
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