Table 1.

Caregiver Responses to Advance Care Planning Questions, Baseline Data

Question	% Yes responses
Has your relative been involved in making any advance care planning decisions, alone or with your help? (n=217)	79.3
Has your relative appointed anyone to act as his/her health care surrogate, to make health care decisions for your relative in the event he/she cannot make such decisions his/herself? Sometimes the health care surrogate is called a health care agent, or a proxy decision maker. (n=215)	87.4
Has your relative identified a substitute health care surrogate, in the event that the primary surrogate is unable to act in that capacity? (n=205)	63.9
Does your relative have a living will that indicates which medical interventions (i.e., cardiac resuscitation, artificial feeding/hydration, blood transfusions, etc.) he/she does and does not want in the event of serious end-of-life illness? (n=215)	69.3
Have you discussed a DNR order with your relative's physician? (n=215)	65.1
Is your relative's doctor aware of his/her decisions concerning end-of-life care? (n=180)	72.2

DNR, do not resuscitate.