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Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care
Aka: Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, Durable Power of Attorney, Health Care Proxy
- See Also
- Advance Care Planning
- Advance Directive
- Provider's Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST)
- Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR)
- Living Will
- Medical Directive
- Advanced Directives in the Emergency Department
- Definition
- Person assigned as decision-making proxy
- Determined when patient cognitively intact
- Activated if patient becomes incapacitated
- Carries out patient's expressed wishes in this case