Coda's Wallet AD-CD: Coda Alliance offers a service to Santa Clara County residents: we can confidentially scan your advance health care directive and put it on a business-card sized CD ROM that you can carry in your wallet.
Here is information on Coda's Advance Directive CD-ROM service:
A.D. CD-ROM Flyer
All you need to do is mail us a copy of your completed Advance Health Care Directive to Coda Alliance, 2671 Plummer Ave - 29S, San Jose, CA 95125 along with a self-addressed stamped envelope with 60 cents postage. Although there is no charge, donations are greatly appreciated and are very important to support this community service.
If you are a member of Kaiser Permanente in the South Bay area, send a copy of your Advance Directive to the outpatient chartroom at the Kaiser San Jose, Santa Clara or Redwood City Medical Center. (Be sure your Kaiser medical record number is on the form.) It will be scanned and stored on a password-protected internet website where it can be accessed by health care providers through the toll-free number on the back of your Kaiser card.
Individual Online Storage:There are a number of Advance Directive storage online sites that may be available to individuals. (Google search of "advance directive" "online storage" yields 414 results) Coda Alliance has not screened or tested any of them. You should shop carefully.
Alternate Forms for Advance Directives:Our Resources page offers links to sites from which you may download forms. There are PLENTY of forms out there, but the ones we offer ourselves are chosen for their simplicity, for the needs they fulfill, and for their usefuness in stimulating discussions. See our page of downlodable Forms and Flyers
If you have suggestions about advance directives forms or worksheets, please call Coda Alliance at 408-267-3922 and let us know.
Dr. Elizabeth Menkin's Home Page provides access to a printable Advance Health Care Directive form (one offered by the Health Education Center at Kaiser Santa Teresa), and information on the out-of-hospital Do Not Resusitate directive (the "EMS DNR Form").
No form by itself will protect your rights or assure that your wishes are followed.
It's not the document that matters most, it's the discussion. How you discuss advance care plans may depend on which of the three usual paths you follow in your final passages of life. Click on "next" to see what Coda offers to help get the discussions going.