Who Should Make the Decisions If You Become Incapacitated?

Do you know who would make your decisions for you if you became incapacitated? A will can deal with the position if you die. But it’s what happens when you are alive and unable to make decisions that creates the biggest problems.

In the same way that income protection is a higher priority than life insurance; what happens if you can’t look after your money or health is a higher priority than a will. If you want someone to look after your finances or other impportant decisions in the event you are unable to do this yourself, you need to appoint someone to do so. 

Relevant Decisions

The most common type of decision people think about are financial ones. But there's more to it than that.  Specifically, we also need to think about personal matters (such as accomodation, diet, and living arrangements), medical matters (arranging and consenting to medical treatment), and medical preferences (to refuse, or require the withdrawal of, medical treatment).

The rules on this vary from