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It clarifies what an agent does, how “best interests” guides choices, and how capacity and informed consent relate to decision-making. The guide also explains health-care terminology such as health care, experimental studies, HIPAA privacy protections, incapacity, incapacity versus capacity, life-prolonging treatment, and the principal who signs the document.","Instructions for Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care\nIdentification of Terms\nAgent: The person or persons you choose to make decisions for you whenever you cannot do so for yourself; this should be someone you trust to make important decisions for you, someone who is willing to do so, someone who can be easily reached in an emergency, and someone who knows or can learn about your specific health-care needs and wishes.\nBest interests: If at all possible, your agent must do whatever he or she knows you would do or would want to do if you could make your own choices. However, if your agent doesn’t know what you would choose, he or she must make the decision that seems the best for you given the circumstances.\nCapacity: The ability to listen to information about your options, make a choice, and communicate your choice. People take in information and communicate their choices in different ways. Just because you may need assistance or communicate differently (such as with an interpreter or with a communication device or with pictures) does not mean you do not have capacity. Information should be given to you in a way you can understand it and you should get whatever help you need to make and communicate your choices. Our law says that you have capacity until either a judge or two doctors decide you do not and put their decision in writing. That means that you can legally make your decisions about health care and about your Power of Attorney so long as you have not been found to lack capacity by a judge or two doctors.\nConsent: Making a decision about medical care. You can either give consent which means saying “yes” to treatment or you can refuse consent which means saying “no” to treatment. You might also hear the phrase “informed consent”—this really means the same thing…saying “yes” or “no” to treatment based on information your doctor gives you about it.\nDurable Power of Attorney: A “durable” Power of Attorney stays in effect even if you get sick or hurt and don’t have capacity to make your own choices anymore. When that happens, your agent starts making decisions for you until you get better and you are able to make your own decisions again.\nHealth care: care for all of your body, including your physical health and your mental health.\nHealth-care study: sometimes called “experimental treatment”, this is treatment that may or may not help you; every medication ever used on human beings has gone through a time of testing to see if it works like the scientists think it does; if you agree to be in a health-care study, you will be told about the possible benefits (good things that might happen) and side-effects (bad things that might happen) before you make your decision about doing it\nHIPAA: stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; this is a long and complex federal law, but here, we simply mean the part of the law that protects your private health-care information from being released to anyone without you saying it’s okay.\nIncapable of making an informed decision:  this is another way of saying “incapacity” or “lacking capacity”; it is the opposite of “capacity”, so it means not being able to listen to information, make a choice or communicate a choice.\nIncapacity: the opposite of “capacity”, so it means not being able to listen to information, make a choice or communicate a choice.\nLife-prolonging treatment: medical care that will not make you better but may make you live longer; the types of care that we usually mean when we talk about “life-prolonging treatment” include a respirator to make your lungs breathe when they cannot breathe on their own and a feeding tube to take in food when you cannot eat food through your mouth; these treatments are used to keep the body alive past the time the body would die if they were not used;\nPrincipal: You!; the person making the decisions in the Power of Attorney and signing it.\nSpecific instructions for each number in the sample Power of Attorney\nThis line is f","cbCaitAA9lml3yNR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitAA9lml3yNR","docx",65804,10,"English","en",105,"# Identification of Terms\n## Agent, Principal, and Best Interests\n## Capacity and Consent\n## Durable Power of Attorney and Health-Care Scope\n## Key Legal and Medical Terms","[{\"question\":\"What does the agent do in a durable power of attorney for health care?\",\"answer\":\"The agent is the person you choose to make decisions for you when you cannot. 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