Medical Power of Attorney
$108 includes GST
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Who looks after you, when you can’t? The government, retirement home or doctors? Should they control your body? Do you trust your family more? If so make an Australian Medical Power of Attorney.
ACT Medical POA – Enduring Power of Guardianship
Who looks after you, when you can’t? The government, retirement home or doctors? Should they control your body? Do you trust your family more? If so make a ACT Medical POA. See a Sample here.
Wife trapped in a retirement home?
Our client’s wife was trapped in a high-end aged care facility. She got Alzheimer’s Disease. Our client wanted to get her out. The retirement home said he had no right to touch or move a person. Not even a wife. He rang me in tears. I told him to go home and get the ACT Medical Power of Attorney. He got it. He took it to the Retirement Home and he got his wife out.
Escape a bad hospital with an Enduring Power of Guardianship
Our client’s wife was in a hospital. The doctors were ‘behaving like Gods, not doctors’. Our client presented the ACT Medical Power of Attorney. And he moved her to another hospital. There was nothing the doctors could do.
What can an Enduring Power of Guardianship do?
The Australian Capital Territory Medical POA allows you to appoint loved ones. If you lose mental capacity then they decide your:
- personal lifestyle
- where you live
- medical treatment
But only if you can’t make decisions yourself.
A Australian Capital Territory Medical POA is also called:
- ACT Enduring Power of Guardianship
- ACT Power of Guardianship
- ACT Enduring Guardianship
- ACT Medical Enduring POA
What decisions can a Australian Capital Territory enduring guardian make?
With an Enduring Power of Guardianship a ACT enduring guardian makes decisions about:
- where you live, whether permanently or temporarily
- who you will live with
- whether you work
- consent to medical & dental treatment
- protect life or ‘flick the switch when a vegetable’
