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| A legal term that refers to the ability to fulfill ones role and handle ones affairs in a responsible manner. |
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| inability of a person to make reasonable choices about medical decisions about treatment and health care |
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| a person responsible for communicating his or her wishes a persons wishes if he or she becomes incompetent or unable to communicate them. |
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| guardianship/conservatorship |
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| a person that is granted the authority over a person that has been granted incompetent by a court order due to a petition filing by a health care provider (usually a physician) is concerned that appropriate decisions cannot be made independently by that person |
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| advance (medical) directives |
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| legally binding documents that allow competent people to document what medical care they would or would not want to receive if they were not capable of making decisions and communicating their wishes. |
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| executive control functions |
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| cognitive skills involved in successfully planning and carrying out goal-oriented behavior, such as self-care tasks. |
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| Patient Self_determination Act (PSDA) |
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An act effective on 12/1/1990 to protect health care consumer by requiring providers do the following:
-Inform pts of their right to refuse treatments and make health care decisions
-provide written information about their state's provisions for implementing advance directives
-ask each person whether an advance directive has been completed
-Include documentation of patients' advance directives in their medical records
-Provide education for the staff and the community on advance directives |
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| legal documents whose purpose is to allow people to specify the type of medical treatment they would want or not want if they become incapacitated as result of terminal illness |
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