Enduring Guardian

An "enduring guardian" occupies a similar role to an attorney with enduring power, but an enduring guardian will generally have wider powers than an attorney.

The Act allows you, to appoint a person as your guardian, which only has effect when you are in need of a guardian. The guardian can be empowered to decide any or all of the following:

• The place (such as a specific nursing home, or your own home) in which you are to live;

• The health care that you are to receive;

• The other kinds of personal services that you are to receive;

• The medical or dental treatment to be carried out on you.

An enduring guardian cannot consent to anything unlawful and cannot attend to certain things, including but not limited to:

• Make a will for you;

• Vote on your behalf;

• Manage your finances; or

• Override your objections, if any, to medical treatment.

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