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A healthcare agent is a person you name in your advance care plan to make medical treatment decisions for you if you ever become too sick or injured to make...

In most cases, your healthcare agent can be anyone that the law in your country or state considers to be an adult, but with these exceptions: Your healthc...

There is no requirement to choose a healthcare agent, but it's one of the most important things you can do to make sure doctors know your medical treatm...

Your healthcare agent makes medical treatment decisions for you if you're too sick or injured to make or communicate them yourself, or if a court ever d...

No matter how carefully you plan for the future and how well you fill out your advance care plan, you can't know ahead of time everything you might face...

Choosing your healthcare agent is an important decision. Be sure to pick someone who knows you very well, is mature and level-headed, can handle stressful s...

It's important to talk to your healthcare agent about the medical treatments you would want or those you would not want to have, how aggressively you wa...

You can choose what kinds of medical treatment decisions your healthcare agent can make on your behalf if a situation arises where you can't decide or c...

When you choose your healthcare agent, you can limit that person's authority to a specific period of time (days, weeks, or months). You might choose to ...

A healthcare agent becomes active if you lose the ability to understand the medical problem and the risks and benefits of medical treatment choices. Put ano...