Identifying when and how surrogates should be involved in decision – making
Surrogate decision-makers
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A resident who lacks decisional capacity to make treatment decisions needs a surrogate decision-maker. The surrogate is responsible for making treatment ecisions on behalf of the resident
Other terms for the surrogate decision -maker include health care proxy or proxy decision-maker.
What is decisional capacity?
For a person to have