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The care committee document he came up with isn't legally binding, Mr. Cohen added, and in case of disagreements, the person's appointed proxy or agent would prevail.
Informed consent was received from all participants or their legally appointed proxy decision-maker.
It is remarkable that the satisfaction with the decision-making process of people with and without an appointed proxy AD was similar, as reported by relatives.
Therefore, it seems that an appointed proxy AD is not necessarily needed to experience a satisfying decision-making process in which relatives are involved.
Only 8% of residents completed an AD themselves, the majority being documented by legally appointed proxy decision makers (23%) or family members (69%).
Among relatives of older people without an appointed proxy AD, it was for a small percentage of people not known if care was in accordance with preferences of the deceased.
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Stopping futile and burdensome procedures for dying patients who have made their wishes known (or have appointed proxies to make those decisions for them) is not the same as allowing patients to self-administer lethal drugs to end their lives under state law (in Oregon and Washington State, for example).
Many people have not completed advance directives, have completed directives that do not provide clear direction, or have appointed proxies who are unlikely to actually know their past wishes.
In Sweden, there is a well-established system for courts to appoint proxies for elderly who no longer are able to care for their assets.
Although the details are local for each country or state, the over-all idea of appointing proxies for persons with reduced decision-making capacity is general.
One helpful possible solution would be if patients had previously appointed a proxy to make decisions for them (under the MCA this would involve a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA)).
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