How will you decide what medication to take or what healthcare you will receive? What you will eat? How will you deal with your rent, your food or shelter? With a Power of Attorney for Personal Care, you can provide the person(s) you chose with the legal authority to make decisions about your health care, nutrition, and diet, shelter, clothing, hygiene and safety, and medical treatment.
A Power of Attorney for Personal Care is a legal document in which one person gives a loved one the authority to make personal care decisions on your behalf if you become mentally incapable. Similarly to the Power of Attorney for Property, you are giving your Attorney the Authority to make decisions about your personal care should you become mentally incapable to make your own decisions that involve things such as:
You may not appoint anyone who provides you with healthcare, residential services, social services, training services or support services for compensation. This means you should never appoint your landlord, your doctor, your teacher, an attendant, a nurse, a VON or anybody that provides services to you.
A Power of Attorney will be valid if at the time it was executed you were capable of giving instructions for execution even if you are incapable of personal care.
Your Power of Attorney for Personal Care is effective once you are not able to understand information that is relevant with respect to your healthcare decisions
Yes. The Lawyer and/or Power of Attorney shall, on your request, assist in arranging an assessment with respect to assessing your capacity as a grantor. Our Powers of Attorney call for two independent medical evaporators to provide their on opinion on your capacity, in their best medical judgment .
If you become mentally incapable your Lawyer must make decisions that conform to your legal document. Your Power of Attorney for Personal Care can make decisions with respect to your health and personal care. The decisions that your Lawyer can make will be decisions that you cannot make yourself because you are mentally incapable and you cannot make decisions concerning your own health care, nutrition, shelter, clothing hygiene, safety or you are not able to reasonably foresee the consequences of a decision or a lack of decision.
If you become mentally incapable and your Power of Attorney does not have authority to make decisions for you, the Court may appoint a guardian in the Lawyer’s place. We strongly suggest that if you are considering a Will or a Spousal Will, that you please also let us draft Powers of Attorney for Personal Care and Property.
If you or a loved one require a power of attorney for personal care please do not hesitate to contact our Hamilton Power of Attorney for Personal Care Lawyers. Give us a call at 905-333-8888 or fill in a contact form today today to discuss your power of attorney for personal care needs.
I was a dental hygienist that suffers from really bad scoliosis. My insurance company ignored my doc & cut my benefits off & told me I could do “something”. Matt got me CPP Disability and and LTD settlement – I don’t know what I would have done without him.
My daughter was killed by a drunk driver and it forever changed all of our lives. It seemed that for two years time stopped. This was no an easy journey. Matt let me sit in on the discovery of the driver and boy, he never let up. In the end, our grand-daughter was taken care of and we were compensated for our loss – which we then donated to a cause we believed in.
I call Matt my knight in shining armour. After I was struck by a car while cycling and permanently crippled, he fielded all communications with my especially difficult and downright nasty insurance adjuster. Every step of my care was a battle and I did not have the strength to fight alone.
I lost my leg in a terrible motorcycle accident and Matt help me recover compensation I need because I could not work and the cost of prosthetics and rehab are out of this world. I don’t know what I would have done without him.
My brother ended up paralyzed after a car accident and Lalande did SO MUCH to help get things straight from him getting out of the hospital to all his care for life. We are so grateful for Matt & Heather. I don’t know how my family could have done this without them.
