VOCABULARY – 9. довгострокове доручен-

duarable power

of the attorney for

health care

довгострокове доручен-

ня на прийняття рішень

у питаннях життя та

смерті.

competent adult

дієздатна

доросла людина

wide notoriety

широке розповсюдження disinterested

особисто

незацікавлений

associated issues пов’язані проблеми

legally competent юридично

дієздатний

medical providers медичні працівники

attest

засвідчити

implement life and приймати рішення щодо

be of sound mind бути при

death decisions

життя або смерті

повному розумі

legal devices

living will

authorize

юридичні механізми

інструкції на період

передсмертного стану

передавати право

subject to duress

subject to fraud

subject to undue

influence

під примусом

внаслідок

шахрайства

внаслідок

стороннього

впливу

attorney-in-fact особа, яка діє за

дорученням

acknowledge

засвідчити

principal

довіритель

notary public

нотаріус

directives

інструкції

make informed

decisions

приймати

відповідальні

рішення

have full power бути повністю

правоможним

TEXT 9

Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care. The availability and use of advanced

medical techniques have raised many practical, moral and legal questions. Cases where a

person is living because he or she is attached to a “machine” have received wide notoriety.

Concern for these and associated issues such as the burden and potential liability that

is placed on the family and the medical providers to make and implement life and death

decisions lead to the development of various legal devices. Among these devices are the

“durable power of attorney for health care” and the “living will”.

The durable power of attorney for health care authorizes another person (the attorney-

in-fact) to make health care decisions for the principal. The principal – knowing that at some

time in the future he or she may not, on a temporary or permanent basis, be able to make

important and even critical decisions on health care – formally gives that power to another.

The principal can give the attorney-in-fact directives on what the attorney-in-fact should do.

While the attorney-in-fact may be given full power, the law imposes certain restrictions.

In summary, a durable power of attorney for health care: (1) may be executed by a

competent adult; (2) must be signed by the principal (the maker) and dated; (3) must be

witnessed by two disinterested and legally competent witnesses; (4) the witnesses must

sign the document and attest that the principal appears to be of sound mind and not under

or subject to duress, fraud, or undue influence; (5) in lieu of an acknowledgement by wi-

tnesses, the document can be acknowledged by a notary public who must make the same

attestation as a witness.

A durable power of attorney for health care becomes effective when the principal’s

attending physician determines that the principal has lost the capacity to make informed

health care decisions.

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