PADS

A psychiatric advance directive (PAD) is a legal document that documents a person’s preferences for future mental health treatment and allows appointment of a health proxy to interpret those preferences during a crisis. See https://www.nami.org/Advocacy/Policy-Priorities/Responding-to-Crises/Psychiatric-Advance-Directives

Currently, only 25 states have laws that specifically allow them. But in New York, which does not have a specific PAD statute, the PAD can be addressed in the general Health Care Proxy (Public Health Law § 2981).