Health & Welfare

The Health and Welfare LPA allows you to decide matters such as whether you would prefer to have your care needs met at home rather than a residential care facility, or to specify which residential care facility you would prefer. We can draft details into your Health and Welfare LPA, explicitly expressing your preferences which would serve as guidance for your attorneys to act upon.

Your family can no longer act on your behalf to arrange for healthcare without a valid power or attorney.

The Health and Welfare LPA is vital to ageing people across a diverse range of lifestyles. If you intend upon living with one of your children, for example, they would need to be appointed with a Power of Attorney to be legally entitled to handle your welfare matters. They are not able to act on your behalf simply by being a family member!

Similarly, social services may very well decide to place you in residential care if you have no attorney or lasting power of attorney to explain that your preference is to remain in your home. If you wish to join your friends in a particular care home, it is also important to have documentation laid out which clearly expresses your preferences.

Nothing is more important than your health, so don't leave your future to chance! Obtaining lasting power of attorney for health and welfare enables you to make decisions about your welfare well in advance and retain power over your own care needs rather than allowing an unknown person from Social Services determine these for you later.