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A Health Care 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 mak...

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

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

Your Health Care 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 ...

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 Health Care Agent is an important decision. Be sure to pick someone who knows you very well, is mature and level-headed, can handle stressful ...

It's important to talk to your Health Care Agent about the medical treatments you would want or those you would not want to have, how aggressively you w...

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

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

A Health Care Agent becomes active if you lose the ability to understand the medical problem and the risks and benefits of medical treatment choices. Put an...