What is a Health Care Power of Attorney?

What is a Health Care Power of Attorney?

It is a document that empowers someone else to make health care decisions for you in the event that you have lost the capacity to make those decisions yourself, due to some disability. Bear in mind that, in many states, the decision of whether or not to administer care to someone who is incapacitated automatically defaults to the physician, not the spouse, unless you have it in writing that you want someone else to have that power. Having Elder Law Center of Wisconsin prepare a health care Power of Attorney for you is a good way to ensure that your decisions are being implemented by someone you trust and that your specific wishes with respect to medical intervention are spelled out in unambiguous detail.

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