The Terence Higgins Trust have produced some information on "Living Wills", and some specimen wills for people to adapt to their own needs.
However, these "living wills" are usually to do with forbidding treatment aimed at prolonging life and, therefore, to allow death with dignity. In your patients case, she would seem to be asking for a will that specified actually forcing her to accept treatment against her will. Hmm ...
--
Ruth Livingstone
http://www.stamford.co.uk/littlesurgery
----------
From: [log in to unmask] on behalf of abayomi.mcewen
Sent: Friday, May 08, 1998 05:01
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Help with Psion & Patient (unrelated)
Hi all,
Is there any psion whizz out here who lives near enough Buckhurst Hill
and who is kind enough to offer to help me get my series5 to synchronise
with my Lotus Organiser 97?
Is there anyone out there who had advice or who could recommend a lawyer
specialisng in Living wills/Advanced directives?
My patient has seen her mother go loopy and paranoid because she refuses
or forgets her medication. no one feels she's bad enough to section to
have depot but she causes distress in the family with accusations of
theft etc. she's fine when she takes her pills. My patient would like
to avoid causing her daughters the same distress if she were to go the
same way.
Greetings
Yomi
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|