Who Can Make Medical Decisions For A Patient

Living wills and advance directives for medical decisions

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/in-depth/living-wills/art-20046303

Power of attorney. A medical or health care power of attorney is a type of advance directive …

Evaluating Medical Decision-Making …

https://www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2018/0701/p40.html

Medical decision-making capacity is the ability of a patient to understand the benefits and risks of, and the alternatives to, a proposed treatment or intervention (including no treatment)....

Who Makes Medical Decisions if You’re Incapacitated?

https://www.joincake.com/blog/incapacitated/

A court-appointed guardian. If you become incapacitated and do not make your own medical decisions through an advance directive like a living will or medical …

If There is No Advance Directive or Guardian, Who …

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_aging/publications/bifocal/vol_37/issue_1_october2015/hospitalist_focus_group/

Over 20 of these statutes now specify that a “close friend” familiar with the person’s values can make the decision if none of the listed family members exist or are …

Who Makes Decisions for Incapacitated Patients Who …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/who-makes-decisions-incapacitated-patients-who-have-no-surrogate-or-advance-directive/2019-07

Decisions for Adult Patients Who Lack Capacity | ama-coe

https://code-medical-ethics.ama-assn.org/ethics-opinions/decisions-adult-patients-who-lack-capacity

A patient who has decision-making capacity appropriate to the decision at hand has the right to decline or halt any medical intervention even when that decision is expected to lead to his or her death, When a patient lacks appropriate capacity, the patient’s surrogate may halt or decline any intervention.

Legal Hierarchy of Medical Decision-Making | Ochsner …

https://www.ochsner.org/services/static/legal-hierarchy-of-medical-decision-making

When a family member is ill and unable to make decisions on their own, who decides for the patient may be an additional source of distress for the family members. How decisions …

Medical Decisions: Who Should Get to Decide? - Caring …

https://www.caringfortheages.com/article/S1526-4114(18)30275-0/fulltext

Whatever the outcome, this controversy makes it clear that everyone should have a trusted family member officially designated as their agent for medical decision …

Who Can Make the Decisions? | Ochsner Health

https://www.ochsner.org/health-resources/medical-ethics-at-ochsner/medical-ethics-at-ochsner-get-help/

Adult friend = an adult who (1) has exhibited special care and concern for the patient; (2) who is generally familiar with the patient’s health care views and desires; and (3) who is willing and able to become involved in the patient’s health care decisions and to act in the patient’s best interest.

Making Medical Decisions for Someone …

https://vtethicsnetwork.org/medical-decision-making/more-topics-in-medical-decision-making/making-medical-decisions-for-someone-else

Surrogate – if a person has not named a health care agent in an advance directive and a court has not appointed a guardian with medical decision-making authority, family members, close friends, …