You need both documents - Health Care Power of attorney and Living Will - Advance Medical Directive
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To better understand the issues relating to your legal situation or problem, our legal information and other law related facts may be of interest to you
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One document generally does not substitute the other. In a Health Care Power of Attorney (or Health Care Proxy) you designate a trusted person to make vital health-related decisions on your behalf, while in a Living Will you are expressing your wishes of preferable methods of treatment and communicating them directly to the world.
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How a Health Care Declaration and Health Care Power of Attorney Work
It would be in your best interest to create ...
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Choosing Living Will and Health Care Directive
In the aftermath of the Terri Schiavo court case, many people have ...
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Help Doctors with a Living Will
In 1969 an attorney (Louis Kutner) came up with the idea of a living will. It was response to paranoid ...
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Online tools for living wills, power of attorney make process easier
Las Vegas Review-Journal
About one in four Americans has completed an advance directive, legal documents that specify the medical care you want in case you aren't able to detail that later because of terminal illness, serious injury, coma or the late stages of dementia. Online ...
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Estate planning should include directives for medical care
nwitimes.com
Although you can appoint a healthcare representative a couple of different ways, the two most common are to grant medical authority within a power of attorney or in a separate document called a healthcare representative appointment. Appointments under ...
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