Delaware health care power of attorney is legal document gives your agent broad powers to make health care decisions for you - medical power of attorney
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You have the right to give instructions about your own health care. You also have the right to name someone else to make health-care decisions for you. This Delaware Advance Health Care Directive form lets you do either or both of these things. It also lets you express your wishes regarding anatomical gifts and the designation of your primary physician. If you use this Delaware Advance Health Care Directive form, you may complete or modify all OR any part of it. You are free to use a different form.
This Advance Health Care Directive consists of four parts:
Part 1 of this Delaware Advance Health Care Directive form is a power of attorney for health care. Part 1 lets you name another individual as agent to make health-care decisions for you if you become incapable of making your own decisions. You may also name an alternate agent to act for you if your first choice is not willing, able or reasonably available to make decisions for you. Unless related to you, an agent may not have a controlling interest in or be an operator or employee of a residential long-term health-care institution at which you are receiving care.
If you do not have a qualifying condition (terminal illness/injury or permanent unconsciousness), your agent may make all health-care decisions for you except for decisions providing, withholding or withdrawing of a life sustaining procedure. Unless you limit the agent's authority, your agent will have the right to:
- Consent or refuse consent to any care, treatment, service or procedure to maintain, diagnose or otherwise affect a physical or mental condition unless it's a life-sustaining procedure or otherwise required by law.
- Select or discharge health-care providers and health-care institutions.
If you have a qualifying condition, your agent may make all health-care decisions for you, including, but not limited to:
- The decisions listed in (a) and (b).
- Consent or refuse consent to life sustaining procedures, such as, but not limited to, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and orders not to resuscitate.
- Direct the providing, withholding or withdrawal of artificial nutrition and hydration and all other forms of health care.
Part 2 of this Delaware Advance Health Care Directive form lets you give specific instructions about any aspect of your health care. Choices are provided for you to express your wishes regarding the provision, withholding or withdrawal of treatment to keep you alive, including the provision of artificial nutrition and hydration as well as the provision of pain relief. Space is also provided for you to add to the choices you have made or for you to write out any additional instructions for other than end of life decisions.
Part 3 of this Delaware Advance Health Care Directive form lets you express an intention to donate your bodily organs and tissues following your death.
Part 4 of this Delaware Advance Health Care Directive lets you designate a physician to have primary responsibility for your health care.
After completing the Delaware Advance Health Care Directive, sign and date the form at the end. It is required that 2 other individuals sign as witnesses. Give a copy of the signed and completed form to your physician, to any other health-care providers you may have, to any health-care institution at which you are receiving care and to any health-care agents you have named. You should talk to the person you have named as agent to make sure that the person understands your wishes and is willing to take the responsibility.
Do not sign this Delaware Health Care Directive unless you clearly understand it.
You have the right to revoke this advance health-care directive or replace this form at any time.
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