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Power of attorney for health care Easy Form
This program will help you prepare your documents. It will ask you questions and you will enter your answers. At the end of the program, you will get a completed set of documents with instructions that you can save and print.
Form completion time: 10 minutes to 20 minutes
You will not be able to save your work in the middle of the program.
The interview and forms are in English.
Can I use this program?
To use this program:
- You must be seeking a Power of Attorney for Health Care to give another person access or control of your health care decisions, and
- You must live in Illinois.
Learn more about giving someone power of attorney for health care.
What do I need first?
To complete this program, you will need to know:
- The name, address, and phone number of the person you want to designate as the agent with power of attorney,
- The names, address, and phone numbers of any successor agents,
- When you want to authorize the agent to start making decisions for you, and
- What you want the agent to do and not do regarding life-sustaining treatments and other health care issues.
What documents will this create?
This program produces the following documents:
- Instructions
- Power of Attorney for Health Care
Last full review by a subject matter expert
May 26, 2023
Last revised by staff
December 18, 2023
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