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What is the difference between an Advance Medical Decision and a Lasting Power of Attorney Personal Welfare?

April 26, 2017decision lasting medical power of attorney welfare

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What is the difference between an Advance Medical Decision and a Lasting Power of Attorney Personal Welfare?

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A Lasting Power of Attorney Personal Welfare is a means for you to confer upon the Attorney the authority to make decisions about your personal welfare or specified matters concerning your welfare. Those decisions include the giving or refusing of consent to treatments which you might wish to include in an Advance Medical Decision. • If you create a Lasting Power of Attorney Personal Welfare after an Advance Medical Decision and the Lasting Power of Attorney Personal Welfare covers the same treatment as the Advance Medical Decision, the Advance Medical Decision will cease to be valid. • If you make an Advance Medical Decision after a Lasting Power of Attorney Personal Welfare and the Advance Medical Decision covers the same treatment as the Lasting Power of Attorney Personal Welfare, the Attorney of the Lasting Power of Attorney Personal Welfare cannot consent on your behalf to that treatment. • If the creation of a Lasting Power of Attorney Personal Welfare has revoked the Advance Med

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A Lasting Power of Attorney Personal Welfare is a means for you to confer upon the Attorney the authority to make decisions about your personal welfare or specified matters concerning your welfare. Those decisions include the giving or refusing of consent to treatments which you might wish to include in an Advance Decision. • If you create a Lasting Power of Attorney Personal Welfare after an Advance Decision and the Lasting Power of Attorney Personal Welfare covers the same treatment as the Advance Decision, the Advance Decision will cease to be valid. • If you make an Advance Decision after a Lasting Power of Attorney Personal Welfare and the Advance Decision covers the same treatment as the Lasting Power of Attorney Personal Welfare, the Attorney of the Lasting Power of Attorney Personal Welfare cannot consent on your behalf to that treatment. • If the creation of a Lasting Power of Attorney Personal Welfare has revoked the Advance Decision, the Advance Decision may nevertheless be