Consent, refuse consent, or withdraw consent to any care, treatment, service or procedure to maintain, diagnose or treat a physical or mental condition, and to make decisions about organ donation, autopsy, and disposition of the body.Kansas Statutes Chapter 58, Article 6: Powers and Letters of AttorneyĪ health care agent has a duty to act in a way that's consistent with the expressed desires of the person who created the healthcare power of attorney. The chart below outlines the main durable power of attorney for healthcare laws in Kansas. Often, healthcare power of attorneys are created as part of an advance health care directive with a living will that designates your medical care wishes for things like life support, if you’re in a coma or terminally ill. The table below doesn’t describe the law for this type of power of attorney.Īnother type is a durable power of attorney for health care, which allows your agent to make health care decisions for you when you’re not able to make decisions, in the judgment of your doctor(s). One type of power of attorney is the financial durable power of attorney, which allows your designated representative to do various financial activities for you, such as write checks for you or collect payments for leasing farmland. The legal document that provides the power to act on the document creator’s behalf is a durable power of attorney. Fortunately, state laws allow people to designate an “agent” or “ attorney-in-fact” to make different decisions for us.
If we become incapacitated due to a coma or a mental condition like Alzheimer’s, most of us would want someone we trust to advocate strongly for our medical care.
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