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Healthcare Agent
Your parent's health care agent -- the individual named in a durable power of attorney for health care -- is legally empowered to make decisions about your parent's medical care if your parent can't speak for himself because he’s unconscious or incapacitated. Also called a health care proxy.
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Checklist - 7 Important Instructions to Include in a Health Care Directive
Know the 7 crucial medical-care instructions your parents should put in their advance health care directives.
Questions & Answers
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Question - What rights do I have as a healthcare agent?
This question has been answered by a Caring.com Expert
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Question - When does a power of attorney take effect?
Read the fine print to determine the specific powers granted in a power of attorney -- and make sure they're not overbroad.
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Tips & Reflections
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Tip - Put It on a Card
Legal documents, such as an advance healthcare directive...
