Health care proxy

Healthcare Care Proxy (Healthcare Agent )

(commonly referred to as HCP) is a document (legal instrument) through which a patient (primary individual) .

is appointed as an agent to make health care decisions on behalf of the patient , when the patient is unable to make and implement the health care decisions stipulated in the power of attorney.

Health Care Agent Benefits

Once the health care agent is effective, the agent continues to make health care decisions as long as the essential individual is legally qualified to make the decision.

Moreover, in legal and administrative functions, a health care agent is a legal tool similar to an emerging health care agent.

The agent must announce the healthcare agent who will receive a permanent power of attorney. Health Care Proxy This document also notifies the authority granted by the director to the agent and clarifies the limits of this authority.

Conditions for obtaining health care power of attorney

People over the age of 18 are allowed to have a healthcare agent, and these documents are useful in situations

Inability to communicate wishes such as being in a chronic coma.
He has some kind of dementia.
Disease removed by a person's ability to communicate effectively.
Be under anesthesia when a decision is required.

Health care Proxy are one way in which alternative decision-makers are enacted, and the other two are court orders and automatic succession laws for decision-makers.

Unlike a living will, Health care Proxy do not identify potential outcomes with predetermined reactions, but rather appoint someone to implement an individual's wishes.