Chapter Seven Legal Issues in Residential Care References
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- Adapted from Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE), Long Term Care Facility Advocate’s Manual, January 2004. [“ACE, Manual”]
- ACE, Manual.
- ACE, Manual.
- Representation Agreement Act [RSBC 1996] c. 405, s. 3.1. [“RAA”] Last accessed: April 22, 2014.
- Health Care Consent and Care Facility (Admission) Act, s. 19.91, [“HCCCFA”} Last accessed: April 22, 2014.
- ACE, Manual.
- Health Care (Consent) and Care Facility (Admission) Act [RSBC 1996] c. 181 [ “HCCCFA”]
- HCCCFAA, s. 16 (2)
- “Spouse” includes people in “marriage -like relationships”, covering both formalized and common law marriages, as well as same sex marriage-like relationships. HCCCFA, s. 1
- HCCCFAA, s. 16 (1).
- HCCCFAA, s. 16 (4).
- HCCCFAA, s. 16 (3).
- HCCCFAA, s. S. 17(1).
- HCCCFA, s. 1 “health care” subsection (b) (ii)
- HCCCFA, s. 19 (1) (a) (i).
- HCCCCFA, s. 19 (1) (b).
- HCCCFA, s. 19 (1) (a) (ii).
- HCCCFA, s.19 (2).
- HCCCFA, s. 19 (3). Also NIDUS, Health Care Consent: Restrictions on the Authority of a Temporary Substitute Decision Maker. Online: http://www.nidus.ca/PDFs/Nidus_Info_Restrictions_on_Authority_TSDM.pdf (Last accessed: May 1, 2014).
- HCCCFAA, s. S. 17 (6).
- HCCCFAA, s. S. 17 (8).
- HCCCFA, s. 17 (2.2) (a).
- HCCCFAA, s. S. 17 (5).
- HCCCFAA, s. 33 (2) (a).
- HCCCFAA, s. 33 (2) (b).
- Health Care Consent Regulation B.C. Reg. 20/2000, as amended, s. 5. [“HCCCFA Reg”]
- HCCCFAA, s. 33.1.
- HCCCFAA, s. 16 (4).
- ACE, Manual.
- Power of Attorney Act [RSBC 1996]c 370, s. 1 [“POAA”]
- POAA, s. 12 (2). Adult may make enduring power of attorney unless incapable.\
- 12 (1)An adult may make an enduring power of attorney unless the adult is incapable of understanding the nature and consequences of the proposed enduring power of attorney.
- (2) An adult is incapable of understanding the nature and consequences of the proposed enduring power of attorney if the adult cannot understand all of the following:
- (a) the property the adult has and its approximate value;
- (b) the obligations the adult owes to his or her dependants;
- (c) that the adult's attorney will be able to do on the adult's behalf anything in respect of the adult's financial affairs that the adult could do if capable, except make a will, subject to the conditions and restrictions set out in the enduring power of attorney;
- (d) that, unless the attorney manages the adult's business and property prudently, their value may decline;
- (e) that the attorney might misuse the attorney's authority;
- (f) that the adult may, if capable, revoke the enduring power of attorney;
- (g) any other prescribed matter.
- POAA, s. 17 (1).
- POAA, s. s27 (1).
- Online: www.nidus.ca (Last accessed: May 1, 2014).
- The enduring power of attorney or a representation agreement for property is suspended if the person granting the power has been “certified” under the Patient Property Act. [RSBC 1996] c. 349, s. 19.1.
- POAA, s. 30 (4) (b). For some people, the duties may continue but only under other legal authority, e.g. as executor of will, administrator of the estate, representative grant.
- POAA, s. 28.
- POAA, s. 31 (3).
- POAA, s. 35 (2).
- POAA, s. 35.
- POAA, s. 35 (1).
- POAA, s. 29 (2) (d) (i).
- POAA, s.29 (2) (d).
- POAA, s. 34 (2) (a).
- POAA, s. 34 (2) (c ) (i).
- POAA, s. 34 (2) (b).
- POAA, s. 34 (2).
- POAA, s. 34 (3).
- Adult Guardianship Act [RSBC 1996] c. 6 [“AGA”]
- Patients Property Act, [RSBC 1996] c. 349. {“PPA”]
- Goodrich v. British Columbia (Registrar of Land Titles), [2004] BCCA 100
- Adult Guardianship and Planning Statutes Amendment Act, 2007, Bill 29.
- Canadian Bankers Association. Consumer Information. “Protecting yourself from financial abuse”. Online: http://www.cba.ca/en/consumer-information/92-protecting-yourself-from-financial-abuse/695-powers-of-attorney-bank-requirements {“CBA, 1”] (Last accessed: May 1, 2014).
- Canadian Bankers Association. Preventing Financial Abuse. Online: http://www.cba.ca/contents/files/misc/msc-preventing-finabuse-print-en.pdf [“CBA, 2”] (Last accessed: May1, 2014).
- CBA, 2, ibid.
- L. Beachell, of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities, comment in Tomlinson, K. (Nov. 12, 2012). “RBC blocks housebound senior from getting her money .” CBC News. Online: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rbc-blocks-housebound-senior-from-getting-her-money-1.1210222 (Last accessed: May 1, 2014).
- POAA, s. 19(1).
- POAA, s. 19(1).
- POAA, s.19.
- POAA, s. 19.
- POAA, c.370, 19 (3) (c).
- POAA, s.19 (3).
- There is an exception made where the individual working the facility is a child, parent or spouse of the adult.
- POAA, s. 32 (1) (a) and (b); also, s. 32 (2).
This information applies to British Columbia, Canada. Last reviewed for legal accuracy by BC Centre for Elder Advocacy and Support, June 2014. |