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II. Documents protecting choices of medical care.
In the event you are seriously injured or incapacitated, you may be unable to make medical decisions about your care. In most states, in the absence of written directions, health care professionals will turn to your blood relatives to make these decisions in the event you are unable to make them for yourself. This is true no matter how long you may have been with your partner and regardless of whether you have a good relationship or even any relationship with your blood relatives.
A. Living Will/Medical Directive
In every state, you can execute a document describing your wishes concerning life-prolonging medical care. Depending upon the state, the document may be called by any one of several different names, including: living will, medical directive, health care directive, directive to physicians, or declaration regarding health care. This document is your directive to health care professionals about what measures you want them to take when you are no longer capable of communicating your choices regarding life-prolonging and other medical care.
B. Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care/Health Care Proxy
A durable power of attorney for health care (which is also sometimes called a "health care proxy") empowers another person to make medical decisions about your care in the event you become unable to make these decisions for yourself.
Even when you have specified your wishes in a living will/medical directive, there may be some decisions for which the health care ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 23, 2004 700+ words
...an elder law attorney about a living will, health care power of attorney and health care proxy: 1) What are your desires with regard to...hydration? 2) Who will serve as your Agent for Health Care? Who will serve as the alternate? 3) Do...
- HEALTH-CARE PROXY LAW LEAVES MANY QUESTIONS.(Local)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) December 16, 1991 700+ words
...their death by filling out a health-care proxy or a living will? A federal...Will the person named in a health-care proxy really know the wishes of the...through a living will or a health-care proxy. New York's health-care...
- Living Will or Health-Care Proxy? Having Both May Create Confusion.
- News wire article from: Banking Wire Krebsbach, Karen June 7, 2002 700+ words
...have both a living will and a health-care proxy, but are both really necessary...hydration or antibiotics. A health-care proxy-also known as a health...addressed to physicians. The health-care proxy, which is a durable power...
- The Physician as a Health Care Proxy.
- Magazine article from: The Hastings Center Report RAI, ARTI SIEGLER, MARK LANTOS, JOHN September 1, 1999 700+ words
...now allow individuals to appoint a "health care proxy," someone who is legally empowered to make health care decisions for them if they are unable...proxies are permitted through freestanding health care durable power of attorney statutes or...
- health care proxy
- Reference information from: The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia October 1, 1996 700+ words
The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia 10-01-1996 health care proxy, a person who has been appointed to make health care decisions for a patient who is unable to do so for him or herself. The ideas, procedures...
- HEALTH CARE PROXY, LIVING WILL ARE DIFFERENT.(MAIN)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) June 16, 1995 700+ words
...about the difference between a health care proxy and a living will. Of great...clarified and understood. A health care proxy, in its simplest form, gives...unable to communicate them. The health care proxy is a much more powerful document...
- SENATE PANEL DELAYS WORK ON HEALTH CARE PROXY BILL.(Local)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 24, 1990 700+ words
...concerns about euthanasia. The health care proxy legislation would allow New Yorkers...designate someone as an agent to make health care decisions for them if they become...incompetent, but proponents of health care proxies say they do so in a legal...
- HEALTH CARE PROXY BILL GIVES PATIENTS A SAY IN THEIR DESTINIES.(Main)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 30, 1989 700+ words
...Legislature the governor's health care proxy legislation. This legislation...the concerns addressed by the health care proxy legislation. Unfortunately...may have some bearing on the health care proxy legislation, I would like to...
Source: HighBeam Research, II. Documents protecting choices of medical care.