Difference between revisions of "Types of Substitute Decision-Making in Residential Care"

Health care providers are authorized to collect personal information about an adult from any person if this is necessary  for the health care providers to carry out  their duties or functions under the  Health Care Consent and Care Facility (Admission) Act.  That may include for example, needed information about who might be the potential TSDMs.

There are several legal issues that arise in residential care facilities related to substitute decision-makers for health, personal care or finances. Some of these, such as when  the substitutes make decisions based on their own wishes or interests not the older adult’s, are described later in the chapter. The TSDM system for health care decisions, however, encounters two special legal problems in residential care.