The advance care directive
With advance care directives, you can authorise people to make decisions on your behalf if you are no longer capable of judgement. The advance care directive applies to representation in personal, financial and legal matters. Married couples and registered partnerships also have a right of representation without a power of attorney. However, married couples also need an advance care directive for extraordinary asset management (e.g. selling a house).
In order to ensure your advance care directive is legally valid, it must be copied by hand and signed and dated.
Would you prefer to use printed brochures and templates to prepare your care documents? The Caritas Care Folder can help you with this. The folder contains information brochures, patient decree forms and a guide to drawing up your advance care directive and your will, as well as a document for directives in the event of death.
We will be happy to send you the Care Folder in the post in return for a small contribution towards the costs of production and postage.
Further information
Bernhard Leicht
Head of inheritances and leagacies+41 41 419 24 69bleicht@caritas.ch
If you have any questions or would like to talk to me, I shall be happy to help you. Please contact me without obligation. Your questions will be treated with the utmost discretion. I shall be happy also to answer any questions that you may have about our work and projects.
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