Powers of Attorney and Related Issues - Publications

ACE Publications

• Advance Care Planning and End of Life Decision-Making: More than Just Documents
• Advance Care Planning in Ontario
• Consent, Capacity and Substitute Decision-Making - The Basics
• The Health Care Consent Act and the Substitute Decisions Act - 25 Common Misconceptions
• List of Substitute Decision Makers Who May Give or Refuse Consent in Respect to Health Care Matters if a Person is Not Mentally Capable
• Options for Advance Care Planning
• Who Assesses Capacity Under What Circumstances?

CLEO Publications

In co-operation with the community legal clinics in Ontario, Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) produces many helpful publications on a wide range of legal topics. The following publications, written by ACE and CLEO and produced by CLEO, are of interest to those wanting information about powers of attorney and related issues, and may be printed from the CLEO website:

• Continuing Power of Attorney for Property
• Power of Attorney for Personal Care

Multiple copies of these publications may be ordered free of charge from the CLEO website or by phoning (416) 408-4420.

Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee (OPGT)

The OPGT has produced a series of brochures on guardianship, substitute decision-making, and guardianship investigations. These brochures may be printed from the OPGT website. These brochures may be ordered from the OPGT free of charge by phoning (416) 314-2800.

A Guide to Advance Care Planning is available free of charge on the Internet or by phoning 1-888-910-1999.

National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly (NICE)

NICE is an international network of researchers, practitioners and students dedicated to improving the care of older adults, both in Canada and abroad. NICE and ACE worked together to create a Tool on Capacity and Consent (Ontario Edition) which can be found on the NICE website.

These documents are in Portable Document Format (PDF). You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print these publications. [Free Download]. If you are using a visual reader and cannot read PDF documents, please contact ACE for a hard copy of the document.