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Understanding personal directives

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Information about what a personal directive is, how to write a personal directive, areas of decision making authority and how to choose someone to represent you as your agent.

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Your role as specific decision maker

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If an adult doesn't have the capacity to make decisions, a health care provider can choose one of the adult’s relatives to make a one-time, time-sensitive decision. Specific decision-making can be... More ≫

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If an adult doesn't have the capacity to make decisions, a health care provider can choose one of the adult’s relatives to make a one-time, time-sensitive decision. Specific decision-making can be about health care, and/or temporary admission to or discharge from a residential care facility.

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