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What didn’t it say?
The statute left unspecified whether or not an admission could be
consented for in the case of a presumptive diagnosis of dementia.
It also left unspecified what constituted the forms of mental health
treatment which could be authorized by the health care
representative.
It left unaddressed liability concerns in outcomes of treatment where
the health care representative’s decisions were overridden or
disregarded in emergency situations where life and safety were at
stake.
And, because the bill retroactively granted authority to the health
care representative to allow for psychiatric hospitalization designated
under all existing ADs, it didn’t address what should happen if the
principals never discussed the issue of psychiatric treatment with
their health care representative.