Developing a senior health care plan is a proactive way to ensure your wishes are carried out should you become incapacitated and unable to make decisions for yourself. Part of what should be included in every plan is a health care power of attorney.

What is a Power of Attorney for Health Care?

Sometimes referred to as an Advanced Health Care Directive, a power of attorney for health care is a document that enables you to name a person or entity to make medical decisions on your behalf when you are no longer able to do so.

If I establish a Power of Attorney, do I lose all of my Rights?

No. All of your rights remain intact. A power of attorney is simply your agent and is empowered by you with specific duties and responsibilities as outlined by you in your legal documents. Establishing a medical power of attorney is an important part of a senior health care plan that helps ensures your rights, interests and wishes are protected in the event you are no longer able to make decisions for yourself.

How do I choose a Medical Power of Attorney?

It is important to choose your medical power of attorney carefully. You need to choose someone you can trust to keep your best interests and wishes at the forefront of every decision that is made on your behalf. It is also important to discuss your health care wishes and preferences with the person who may someday be making decisions for you. If you do not have a family member that you feel comfortable naming to this role, Decades, LLC can serve in this capacity.

How can Decades, LLC Help?

Decades, LLC can help you in multiple ways:

1. We can serve as your medical power of attorney.
2. We can serve as support to a family member appointed as your medical power of attorney.
3. We can serve as a substitute decision maker in the event that a family member currently active in the role of power of attorney needs to go out of town.

Decades, LLC, is dedicated to ensuring that your wishes are respected. Our multi-disciplinary approach offers you the value of a group practice that utilizes many different perspectives of experienced professionals when it comes to making major medical and end of life decisions. If necessary, our team may work with ethics committees of major hospitals.

To make sure we carry out our clients wishes exactly as they intend, we complete a multi-page values history with clients so we can get to know what their wishes and preferences are. We are committed to preserving the dignity, autonomy and quality of life of all of the clients in our care.

Contact Decades, LLC for help Establishing an Senior Health Care Plan

Decades, LLC is a geriatric care management practice providing fiduciary services, like power of attorney for health care, for over 10 years. We serve as a knowledgeable resource for those in the greater Albuquerque and Santa Fe areas facing financial, legal or health care decisions associated with aging. Whether you need help now or would like to prepare for the future with our Springing Client Program, we are here for you.

Contact Decades, LLC in Albuquerque, NM at 505-345-5529 or in Santa Fe, NM at 505-983-7787 to learn more about setting up an elder health care plan in New Mexico and the benefits of establishing a medical power of attorney.