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Choosing Who Will Handle Your Health Care Proxy (by Lynn Brenner) - Part III.
A lawyer can also amend the standard health care proxy to include a reference to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the law passed in 1996 that went into effect this year, which restricts access to medical records. To ma ...   More details

Complete a Living Will and a DPOAHC.
Complete these documents before you become ill. An accident or serious illness can happen at any time. Talking with your family and physician now gives you a chance to ask questions and talk about your concerns. If you do this when you're healthy, yo ...   More details

Difference between a Living Will and a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care.
A Living Will is a document addressing only deathbed considerations. In this document a client unilaterally declares his/her desire that life-prolonging measures be discontinued when there is no hope of ultimate recovery. A client uses a Durable Powe ...   More details

Do you need a lawyer in order to create an advance directive?
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Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care.
A durable power of attorney for health care is a document in which you name another person to act as your agent to make your medical decisions if you become incapacitated. You can include instructions about which treatments you do or do not want. If ...   More details

Entrusting Life and Death Decisions in New York (by Lynn Brenner) - Part I.
If you don't write a will, your loved ones will pay for it after you're gone. But if you don't have a health-care proxy and a living will, they're likely to suffer for it while you’re alive - and so are you.
 
A good estate plan doesn't ju ...   More details

Entrusting Life and Death Decisions in New York (by Lynn Brenner) - Part II.
Living will. This document states which medical treatments - including life-sustaining measures - you do and do not want.
 
Health-care proxy. This gives another person the legal right to make health-care decisions when you're incapacitate ...   More details

Entrusting Life and Death Decisions in New York (by Lynn Brenner) - Part III.
As backup. By the same token, a health-care proxy can be crucial support for a living will. As an example, Krooks cites a Westchester case in which a hospital refused a husband's request to terminate his wife's life support, despite the instructions ...   More details

Health-care proxies and living wills - Making known your medical wishes now can save a lot of heartache later
A living will (also known as an advance medical directive) is a statement of your wishes for the kind of life-sustaining medical intervention you want, or don't want, in the event that you become terminally ill and unable to communicate.
 
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How does the DPOAHC differ from a Power of Attorney or Durable Power of Attorney?
The DPOAHC is a document that allows you to name a person to make health care decisions for you if you ever become unable to speak for yourself. Neither a Power of Attorney nor a Durable Power of Attorney empowers anyone to make health care decisions ...   More details

 
 

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