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a legal document designed to indicate a person's wishes regarding care in case of a terminal illness or during the dying process

• Legal disability

• Advance Directives

• Patient Self-Determination Act

• Living Wills

• Durable Power of Attorney

A condition in which a person does not have legal capacity and is more unable to enter into a legal agreement (for example, as is the case with a minor)

• Legal disability

• Advance Directives

• Patient Self- Determination Act

• Living Wills

• Durable Power of Attorney

A federal law that mandates that every individual has the right to make decisions regarding medical care, including the right to refuse treatment and the right to die

• Advance Directives

• Legal disability

• Durable Power of Attorney

• Living Wills

• Patient Self-Determination Act

A legal document stating a persons's desires on what measures should or should not be taken to prolong life when his or her condition is terminal

• Durable Power of Attorney

• Living Wills

• Advance Directives

• Legal Disability

• Patient Self- Determination Act

a legal document that per-mits an individual (principal) to appoint another person to make any decisions regarding care if the prin-cipal becomes unable to make decisions

• Durable Power of Attorney

• Living Wills

• Patients Self-Determination

• Legal Disability

• Advance Directives