{"id":1218,"date":"2014-03-11T00:55:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T00:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2014-03-11T00:55:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T00:55:46","slug":"last-writes-end-of-life-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/11\/last-writes-end-of-life-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"LAST &#8216;WRITES&#8217; &#8211; end-of-life decisions &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEDICAL POWERS OF ATTORNEY (MPOA) permits another individual to make medical decisions on your behalf when you become incompetent.\u00a0 Two prescribed forms must be done:\u00a0 DISCLOSURE STATEMENT, must be read and understood before the 2nd, the actual MPOA, is read and signed.\u00a0 After signing a MPOA, you can continue to make health care decisions as long as you are competent.\u00a0 You can also designate alternate agent (s) and to limit the duration of the power granted.\u00a0 You need a termination date or the Power of Attorney exists indefinitely from the date it is signed.\u00a0 When inserting a termination date and you are incompetent when the MPOA expires, the agent&#8217;s authority continues until you become competent, if ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDICAL POWERS OF ATTORNEY (MPOA) permits another individual to make medical decisions on your behalf when you become incompetent.\u00a0 Two prescribed forms must be done:\u00a0 DISCLOSURE STATEMENT, must be read and understood before the 2nd, the actual MPOA, is read and signed.\u00a0 After signing a MPOA, you can continue to make health care decisions as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}