Personal welfare
This allows the person that you appoint to deal with matters relating to your personal health and welfare.
The following is not a conclusive list of what decisions can be made on your behalf:
- day to day care including what you eat and how you dress
- where you should live
- who you can have contact with
- what activities either social or otherwise that you can take part in
- consenting or refusing to medical treatment
- right of access to personal information
This power can only be used in circumstances where you have lost the ability to make a certain decision yourself.
In order to make decisions with regard to life sustaining treatment, you must expressly provide for this in the document.