Home of the Akamai Kupuna
-- Wise Older Person

Prepare for the Worst and Expect the Best!

New in 2020

Available for pick up
at UH Law School
Clinical Building

2485 Dole St.
Call 956-6544

This publication was funded through

the Hawaii Justice Foundation

with Support from the William S. Richardson School of Law

Deciding What Matters and What to Do...

Click on the chapter or headings below to learn more.

Chapter 1: PLANNING FOR A LIFETIME

                       
• Planning Ahead
• Incapacity, Memory Loss and Dementia (Neurocognitive Disorder)
• Guardianship and Conservatorship
• Alternatives to Guardianship and Conservatorship
• Powers of Attorney and the Uniform Power of Attorney Act (UPOAA)
• Money Management  

• Trust

Chapter 2: PLANNING FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT, HEALTH CARE DECISIONS AND DECISIONS AT THE END OF LIFE
         
• Medical Treatment and Informed Consent
• Advance Health Care Directives
• Surrogate Decision-Making
• Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Codes
• Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)
• Donations of Organs and Bodies

Chapter 3: FINANCING HEALTH CARE INCLUDING LONG-TERM  CARE

• Health Care
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• Long-Term Care Insurance
• Veterans Services and Benefits
• Special Needs Trusts

Chapter 4: BASIC ESTATE PLANNING

• Estate Planning
• Wills and Trusts
• Property, Probate and Other Topics
• Hawaiian Home Lands Leaseholds Successorship

Chapter 5: DECIDING WHO CARES?

• Chances Are...
• Protective Services and Elder Abuse
• Hiring a Caregiver
• Checklist for Employers

• Coping with Death and Dying
• Finding a Lawyer
• Dementia-Capable Lawyers

• Aging in Place

FORMS
 
• Checklist for Making an Advance Health Care Directive
• Sample Short Form: Advance Health Care Directive
• Sample Long Form: Advance Health Care Directive
• Sample Written Instrument to Control Disposition of Remains

• Sample State of Hawaii Statutory Form Power of Attorney

• What Matters to Me

ONLINE FORMS

Click on an editable form below to open, fill out and save. 

The application forms may be sent by mail to the address on the application or by email attachment to uhelp.edu@gmail.com.

1. General Application for Services

2. Will Application

3. Power of Attorney Application

4. Short Form Advance Health Care Directive

5. Long Form Advance Health Care Directive

6. Written Instrument to Control the Disposition of Remains

7. Declaration of Authority to Act as a Surrogate for a Patient

8. What Matters to Me

KOKUA PACKET - Important Information

The Kōkua Packet is an organizer that can be used for planning or emergencies. It is not a legal document but is intended to provide important information and to mark where you may have put your legal documents and other important information. The Kōkua Packet can also be used as a guide to help you to put into place legal, financial and healthcare documents to prepare for the future.