Preferences about types of treatments. Choices about temporary care of your children, your home, your affairs. Developing a POA when healthy allows you the opportunity to openly discuss signs and symptoms of your illness, as well as your treatment preferences. When properly planned and implemented, it is a natural fit with empowerment and recovery. Most people can make their wishes about their health care known to their doctors.
Some people become too sick to tell their doctors about the type of care they want.
The form tells your doctors what you want done if you cannot make your wishes known. Anyone under the age of 18. A person who is related to you by blood, marriage or adoption. A person who is named in the document as an agent, alternate agent. Your attending physician.