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What Should be Included in Living Wills?
Living wills are designed to make it possible for you to decide what level of extraordinary medical care you wish to receive, if any, if you have a terminal condition or an end-stage condition and cannot speak for yourself. Living wills can also give you the opportunity to explain what medical care you wish to receive if you […]
read more >Should I Have a Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare in Florida?
A Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare can grant someone else the authority to manage your health and medical affairs and make decisions on your behalf if you become incapacitated. A Declaration of Health Care Surrogate although named differently has the same effect. A Durable Power of Attorney can give someone the right to act […]
read more >What is a Living Will?
Living wills are relatively new creature in our law. The need for Living Wills arose as a result of advances in the medical field, primarily the discovery and development of mechanical ventilation around the 1950’s. As technology, advanced, patients could be maintained longer and longer artificially. It was inevitable that some people would want to […]
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