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.
QLD Medical Power of Attorney
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 QLD Medical POA. See a Sample here.
Wife trapped in a retirement home?
Our client’s wife was trapped in a high-end retirement home. She had 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 QLD Medical POA. He got it. He took it to the Retirement Home and he got his wife out.
Escape a bad hospital
Our client’s wife was in a hospital. The doctors were ‘behaving like Gods, not doctors’. Our client presented the QLD Medical Power of Attorney. And he moved her to another hospital. There was nothing the doctors could do.
What can a QLD Medical POA do?
The Queensland Enduring Medical Power of Attorney allows you to appoint loved ones. If you lose mental capacity then they decide your:
- personal lifestyle
- where you live
- medical treatment
- Qld health care decisions
But only if you can’t make decisions yourself.
A QLD Medical Power of Attorney is also called a:
- QLD Enduring Power of Guardianship
- Queensland Enduring Guardianship
- Queensland Medical Enduring Power of Attorney
What decisions can a Queensland enduring guardian make?
A QLD 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’
