


The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) supports and upholds the clients’ rights to confidentially and the privacy of their medical related information regardless of its form.
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This Act also supports the rights of the client to be free of any coercion or any undue influence of others including healthcare providers. These decisions can also include rejections for future care and treatment and these decisions are reflect in advance directives. The Patient Self Determination Act, which was passed by the US Congress in 1990, gives Americans the right to make healthcare decisions and to have these decisions protected and communicated to others when they are no longer competent to do so.

I can only make decisions for you and on your behalf when these decisions are not already documented on your advance directive.” The client tells you that they are grateful for having considered and decided upon some end of life decisions and the appointments of those who they wish to make decisions for them when they are no longer able to do so.ĭuring this discussion with the client and the client’s wife, the client states that “my wife and I are legally married so I am so glad that she can automatically make all healthcare decisions on my behalf without a legal durable power of attorney when I am no longer able to do so myself” and the wife responds to this statement with, “that is not completely true. You are caring for a client at the end of life.
