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ABA Family Legal Guide
The Rights of Older Americans
A Right to Control Your Own Affairs
Health-Care Decision-Making Issues
- What is my right to control decisions about my health care?
- What happens to my right to make medical decisions if I am too sick to decide?
- What is an advance directive for health care?
- What is a living will?
- What is a durable power of attorney for health care?
- Which is better, a living will or a durable power of attorney for health care?
- What happens if I do not have an advance directive?
- How do I make an advance directive?
- What should my advance directive say?
- Can I change or terminate my advance directive?
- Whom should I select as my agent or proxy for health decisions?
- What do I do with my advance directive after completing one?
- What if my doctor or hospital refuses to follow my advance directive?
- Is a lawyer needed to do an advance directive?
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