Georgia Healthcare Planning
What is A Healthcare Directive?
A healthcare directive is a legal document designating who can make your medical decisions if you are ill or incapacitated.
More Healthcare Planning FAQs
Who do You want to make Making Your Medical and Financial Decisions If You Cannot?
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Metro Atlanta Healthcare Planning
What happens if you become seriously ill or injured, and can’t make your own medical decisions? Who do you want to make your healthcare decisions if you are no longer able to? What happens if you don’t choose someone to make your healthcare decisions if you become ill?
Perimeter Law Group can help you create legally binding documents to explain who you want to make your healthcare decisions in the event you become ill or incapacitated.
Advance Healthcare Directive
A document called an advance healthcare directive, also called a healthcare proxy. Every situation is unique, and you may give your healthcare proxy to an adult child, a domestic partner, a parent or a close friend.
Your healthcare advance directive authorizes someone you trust to instruct your medical team on how you want to be cared for, what treatments you do or don’t want, and what your end-of-life decisions are. If you become ill, you are not in the best frame of mind to make those decisions.
Living Will
In Georgia, we no longer do living wills or a power of attorney for healthcare. It's all combined in an advance directive for healthcare. There is language that addresses what you want to happen in the event you are in a coma, or you're in a persistent vegetative state, or if you're on life support.
Power of Attorney for Finances
This power of attorney deals with your finances if you become ill and unable to make your own financial decision. This document says who you want to appoint to make decisions about your money. The Georgia power of attorney laws changed a few years ago and you can now decide when your POA, and what it will have control over - and not have control over - while you are ill or incapacitated.
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National Healthcare Decisions Day
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