Alternatives to Guardianship of the Person
There are legal ways to give someone else authority to make certain decisions for you other than guardianship. In particular, the level of capacity required to execute or complete advance health care directives is quite low, allowing a person the opportunity to direct who and how their care will be handled, should they lose capacity to make health care decisions themselves.
Advanced Health Care Directives
(i.e., Health Care Proxy, Living Will and MOLST) used to memorialize the individual’s health care preferences. Advanced Directives detail the person’s preferences with respect to certain medical interventions should they become unable to communicate them to a doctor and appoint a person to make those decisions.
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