1. When making a treatment decision for a resident, a substitute decision maker must consider a resident's wishes before considering the resident's best interests.

2. A substitute decision maker can ask the Consent and Capacity Board for permission to depart from a resident's known wish.

3. When equally ranked substitute decision makers disagree, the healthcare provider can go to the Public Guardian and Trustee for consent.

4. Someone named in a Power of Attorney for Personal Care can appoint another person to make decisions for the resident.

5. A health care provider can ask the Consent and Capacity Board to review a substitute decision maker's consent decision.

6. A resident's substitute decision maker can decide whether or not the resident is capable of making treatment decisions.

7. The Public Guardian and Trustee can make treatment decisions for a resident who has nobody else to act as their substitute decision maker only if prior arrangements have been made by the resident.

8. A person who has made a Power of Attorney for Personal Care document can no longer make his or her own treatment decisions.

9. If a resident has no higher ranked substitute decision makers, but one child is older than the other, the eldest child will be the substitute decision maker.

10. A person is considered a resident's "spouse" only if that person is married to the resident.