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  2. How to Make Your Advance Directives - WebMD

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    Health care proxy. This is a document that names the person who will make your medical decisions if you can’t. It’s also called a durable power of attorney.

  3. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. An advance healthcare directive, also known as living will, personal directive, advance directive, medical directive or advance decision, is a legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity. In the U.S ...

  4. Advance Directives and Medical Power of Attorney - WebMD

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    Advance directives are legally binding and tell doctors what life extending measures you want taken, or not taken, if you are unable to communicate. Medical power of attorney designates a person ...

  5. Surrogate decision-maker - Wikipedia

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    A surrogate decision maker, also known as a health care proxy or as agents, is an advocate for incompetent patients. If a patient is unable to make decisions for themselves about personal care, a surrogate agent must make decisions for them. If there is a durable power of attorney for health care, the agent appointed by that document is ...

  6. Preparing an Advance Directive - WebMD

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    Health care surrogate forms (or health care proxy forms) designate a person who will make health care decisions for you if you become incapacitated. The health care proxy has, in essence, the same ...

  7. Healthcare proxy - Wikipedia

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    Healthcare proxy. In the field of medicine, a healthcare proxy (commonly referred to as HCP) is a document (legal instrument) with which a patient (primary individual) appoints an agent to legally make healthcare decisions on behalf of the patient, when the patient is incapable of making and executing the healthcare decisions stipulated in the ...

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