A legal document that gives the person you designate (your health care agent) broad powers to make health care decisions, including mental health treatment decisions, for you should you become unable to make informed healthcare decisions for yourself.
A durable power of attorney by which the principal may choose an agent to make health-care decisions after the principal has become incapacitated and is unable to make those decisions.
A document that clearly states what your wishes are if you find yourself needing medical care and you can't represent yourself. You appoint an agent who will act on your behalf to make sure your wishes are followed.
This appoints another person to speak for the person if s/he is incapacitated from making and communicating those decisions. This is especially important in non-marital relationships, where the law does not provide decision- making authority to the partner of the patient.
A document in which you appoint another person to make care, custody and medical decisions if you are unable to do so.
A legal document in which you give another person the power to make medical decisions if you are unable to do so. See “Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare”.
A document that appoints someone else to make health care decisions for a person, should the person become unable to make or express them for himself or herself.
A durable power of attorney which gives someone the ability to make health-care decisions for someone else after that person cannot decide for themselves.
The appointment of a health care agent to make decisions when the principal becomes unable to make or communicate decisions.