What is a Health Care Proxy (MA) / Living Will (CT)?
This document allows you to appoint a health care agent who will be called upon to make decisions about your medical care only if your health care provider determines that you are unable to make or communicate such choices for yourself – for example, if you were unconscious, paralyzed or mentally incapacitated. You should appoint a party who you believe will make decisions that are consistent with your religious or moral beliefs, including any instructions you may have put in a living will. A copy of your signed Health Care Proxy (MA) / Living Will (CT) should be given to your physician(s) so that it will be available to the physician as part of your medical record.
