No lawyer is required to complete the form and it doesn’t even have to be notarized. It only requires that you sign it in front of two adult witnesses (who also must sign it). These witnesses can be any adult, but cannot be the same person you list as your health care agent or alternate agent.

January 3, 2022
Published by EOLCNY at January 3, 2022
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Advance Directives, Health Care Proxy Form

Do I need a lawyer to complete the Health Care Proxy Form?

No lawyer is required to complete the form and it doesn’t even have to be notarized. It only requires that you sign it in front of […]
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January 3, 2022
Published by EOLCNY at January 3, 2022
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Advance Directives, Health Care Proxy Form

Is the Health Care Proxy difficult to complete?

Fortunately, the New York State Health Care Proxy is publicly available and very easy to fill out. The form itself is only two pages long. The […]
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January 3, 2022
Published by EOLCNY at January 3, 2022
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Advance Directives, Health Care Proxy Form, Patient Rights

What is a Health Care Proxy?

If you are injured, or become ill, and are unable to communicate or make your own decisions, someone else will have to make health care decisions […]
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October 13, 2021
Published by EOLCNY at October 13, 2021
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Caregiving, Voluntarily Stopping Eating & Drinking

How do caregivers evaluate a patient’s change of mind during the process, when the patient said at the beginning that if he demands food during the process not to honor it?

The response must be based upon a determination of the patient’s decisional capacity to ‘change’ his/her mind. It is almost always the case that, as the […]
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