{"id":14788,"date":"2019-08-02T11:38:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T15:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berwitz-ditata.com\/?page_id=14788"},"modified":"2019-08-02T11:38:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T15:38:43","slug":"health-care-proxies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/berwitz-ditata.com\/articles-and-news-2\/health-care-proxies\/","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH CARE PROXIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The New York Health Care Proxy Law allows you to appoint an agent, a family member or trusted friend, to ensure that doctors and other health care providers follow your wishes if you lose the ability to communicate your wishes on your own.\u00a0 If you have a valid and enforceable Health Care Proxy, your agent is empowered to make health care decisions on your behalf when you are unable to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some people believe that they will only need a Health Care Proxy at life\u2019s end.\u00a0 Without a crystal ball, this makes things difficult!\u00a0 Also, at any age, you may need to have an agent make medical decisions on your behalf if, for instance, you are under anesthesia or in case of an accident or other medical emergency.\u00a0 Under these circumstances,\u00a0 your agent\u2019s authority might be temporary and will end once you regain your ability to make decisions independently.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the agent is required to act on a more permanent basis.\u00a0 If you have a stroke or suffer the symptoms of dementia or Alzheimer\u2019s Disease, or if you are comatose due to an injury or illness, the agent may be required to make all of your health and medical decisions on an on-going basis.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In either case, the job of the health care agent is to act as your voice and make health care decisions in accordance with your wishes or in your best interests.\u00a0 Hospitals, doctors and other health care providers are required, by law, to follow your agent\u2019s decisions as if you had communicated them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once you have appointed your agent it is important to discuss your health care proxy with the agent and to advise your agent of your wishes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The New York Health Care Proxy Law allows you to appoint an agent, a family member or trusted friend, to ensure that doctors and other health care providers follow your wishes if you lose the ability to communicate your wishes on your own.\u00a0 If you have a valid and enforceable Health Care Proxy, your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":12338,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14788","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berwitz-ditata.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berwitz-ditata.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berwitz-ditata.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berwitz-ditata.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berwitz-ditata.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/berwitz-ditata.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14788\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berwitz-ditata.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berwitz-ditata.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}