A Practice Note regarding health care incapacity planning in California. Documents that clients use for health care incapacity planning in California may include an Advance Health Care Directive, a HIPAA Release, a Do Not Resuscitate Order (DNR), and a Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST). This Note provides information on the purpose of these documents, the various health care decision makers that can act on a patient's behalf, standards for executing these documents, requirements for health care facilities, as well as organ donation and disposition of remains.