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What Happens In Case Of Incapacity? Handling Medical Affairs

dpl_admin2025-03-17T18:13:46+00:00March 17th, 2025|Tags: David Pyke, end-of-life decisions, Estate Planning, Incapacity, Medicaid Planning, medical affairs, medical agent, Medical Power of Attorney, Pyke & Associates|

The only document that is needed, or available, to avoid guardianship in case of your incapacity is a medical power of attorney. This is a key document in everyone's estate plan. If you have named an agent and given them authority to make your medical decisions, with a properly executed medical power of attorney that [...]

What Happens In Case Of My Incapacity?

Your Finances A recent study forecasted "a dramatic rise in the burden from dementia in the United States of the coming decades, with one in two Americans expected to experience cognitive difficulties after age 55" according to Dr. Josef Coresh, the study’s senior investigator and epidemiologist. Dr. Coresh is the founding director of the Optimal [...]