Molst Form Massachusetts: Fill & Download for Free

You have one answer that is well researched and scientific. I keep getting these questions with people assuming I’m a doctor or nurse; I’m not; just a daughter watching her mother succumb to frontotemporal dementia.I keep asking “how will she die?” of the various doctors and professionals we’ve met with during this journey.They all say that she will eventually lose the ability to swallow; therefore, her body will not receive nourishment. Her organs will shut down as a result. She is being regularly tested for “blood albumin levels” (I researched this, and it is a determination of proteins in the blood. Apparently, she is at a “level 4” where a healthy person would be a 15.)Since I am her health care proxy, I had to fill out an end-of-life directive (in my state, Massachusetts, it’s called a “MOLST” form). I noticed that the form includes instructions for tube-feeding in the event my mother can’t swallow regular food. This presented me with a dilemma; I know my mother would hate a feeding tube, but otherwise, she’d literally starve to death. I sought out the director of her facility for help. This director told me to refuse any artificial feeding or respiration, and to enter “DNR.”I asked why, and was told that my mother would have to be hospitalized, sedated, and fed through a tube. She would be unconscious, and eventually, her brain would die of the dementia. So, after perhaps months on artificial life support, I would be placed in the position of “pulling the plug” -and essentially killing- my mother.My mother is 88, and has led a good life until now. It is clear her brain is terribly damaged by disease; I don’t know how she is still alive, as she doesn’t seem to understand what food is anymore, and needs help to eat.The director of the facility said it is best to let the disease run its course. When the time comes, she’ll “hospice in place” and pass without being in a hospital setting with machines pumping her with air and nourishment.Bottom (unscientific) line: the brain is an organ, and it runs the rest of the body. When it cannot perform the most basic act of self-preservation, ingesting food and water, the rest of the organs fail, too.

No, it's the other way around. Massachusetts Order of Life Sustaining Treatment is signed by an MD and can't be overridden by anyone except by the patient if they're capable or the MD who signed the original document.