- Entitlement and access to public health care services
- Medical treatment: consent and withdrawal
- Advance Directives
- Taking care of a mentally incapacitated person: Guardianship or Committee
- Enduring Power of Attorney
- What is an Enduring Power of Attorney?
- Key advantages of an EPA
- The attorney
- Duties and liabilities of the attorney(s)
- The attorney(s)' authorities and restrictions
- How to make an EPA - using the prescribed form
- How to make an EPA - signed by the donor
- How to make an EPA - certificate by a registered medical practitioner and a solicitor
- How to make an EPA - arrangements for donor who is physically incapable
- How to make an EPA - signed by the attorney(s)
- Commencement of the EPA
- Registration of the EPA
- Notification of named persons
- Revocation
- Hypothetical cases
- Questions and answers
- Guide to prescribed forms of the Enduring Power of Attorney and downloading the forms
- Elder abuse
- Medical negligence
- Medical insurance
- Care by residential care homes for elderly persons
Enduring Power of Attorney
Key advantages of an EPA
The Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong published a Report on Enduring Powers of Attorney in 2008 and identified the key advantages of an EPA:
- it allows an individual to choose the person or persons who will look after the individual’s affairs if he/she becomes incapable of doing so;
- it avoids expensive and potentially distressing court proceedings for the appointment of a trustee to look after the individual’s affairs;
- it provides an efficient and cost-effective way of administering the individual’s property; and
- it eases the difficulties and distress that may otherwise be suffered by the donor’s family in managing the donor’s affairs.
