Georgia

Moving to the Nursing Home (1)+

• Temporary Health Care Placement Decisionmakers: when you need to move from hospital to nursing home

  When someone is unable to consent to his or her own admission to or discharge from a health care facility, it may be necessary for him or her to have someone else decide. This law covers that. Read More

Know Your Rights Articles (6)+

• Alternatives to Guardianship with Advance Directives

  Allowing an individual to make advance directions concerning his or her health care lets each person control the direction of his or her own health care and eliminates that burden from other family members who may be in disagreement or who simply may not know what to do. Content Detail

  By:

  Georgia Department of Human Resources

• Details of My Final Arrangements

  This document helps you sort out your thoughts (and write them out) about how you want things to be managed upon your death. Click to read more. Content Detail

  By:

  Department of Human Resources, Division of Aging Services

• End of Life Planning: DO NOT RESUSCITATE ORDER

  this document attempts to clarify when you will be resuscitated or not resuscitated, even if you have it in writing that you do or don't want to be. Content Detail

  By:

  Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Aging Services

• Temporary Health Care Placement Decisionmakers: when you need to move from hospital to nursing home

  When someone is unable to consent to his or her own admission to or discharge from a health care facility, it may be necessary for him or her to have someone else decide. This law covers that. Read More

• The Facts About Financial Powers of Attorney

  Learn what you need to know about advance directives. Read More

• What is Elder Abuse?

  This brochure is aimed at providing information and resources for victims of elder abuse as well as defining laws pertaining to elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Read More