4. People to Notify
These are the people you name on your LPA
because you want them to be informed
when the LPA is sent off to the Office of
the Public Guardian (OPG) to be registered.
They will each receive a form letting them
know about the pending registration, and
they will then have 3 weeks to raise any
concerns about this with the OPG.
The form they receive sets out the grounds
they could object to the registration on. For
example, they believe you revoked your LPA
while you still had capacity, or they believe
the LPA was not valid because you didn’t
have capacity to make it.
You don’t have to name any people to
notify on the form, but it’s a good safeguard
if you are choosing not to register your LPA
straight away!
5. Life-sustaining Treatment
This is only relevant to the Health & Welfare
LPA. Life-sustaining treatment is any
treatment that the person providing your
medical care believes is necessary to sustain
your life. It’s up to your doctor to decide
whether treatment is life-sustaining.
What jumps to mind when asked
about life-sustaining treatment? If you
immediately thought of emergency surgery
or ventilation you aren’t alone, and you
wouldn’t be wrong. But did you know that
what treatment is ‘life-sustaining’ depends
entirely on your circumstances? What may
not be life-sustaining for one person may be
life-sustaining for you. A common example
is a simple prescription of antibiotics.
In your Health & Welfare LPA you must state
whether your attorneys can or cannot make
decisions about life-sustaining treatment.
This is a big decision, and if you want to
grant your attorneys this power it’s a good
idea to talk to them about any treatment
preferences you might have.
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