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Health and planning ahead resources

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Financial & Personal Decisions,Health

Health Care Decisions

This guide provides information about naming a substitute decision-maker for your healthcare decisions if you are incompetent. Incompetent means unable to understand financial or legal matters and make informed legal or financial decisions.
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Health

Preventing Abuse and Neglect of Older Adults

This resource provides information about and tips for preventing abuse and neglect of older adults.
Financial & Personal Decisions

Executors and Administrators

This guide is for people who are executors of a PEI will. It is also for administrators for a PEI resident who died without a will. It offers basic information about wills, how to act on a will, and what to do if someone dies without a will. If you want to learn more about wills, read our guide Wills.
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Financial & Personal Decisions,Health,Indigenous

Planning Ahead and Staying Safe

This guide for indigenous seniors provides information about wills, powers of attorney, health care decisions, and safety from violence.
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Health

Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)

This resource provides general information about Medical Assistance in Dying and how to access it on Prince Edward Island. For more information, see Health PEI’s Medical Assistance in Dying resource.
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Financial & Personal Decisions

Wills

This guide gives basic information about wills and how to make your own will. If you want to learn more about being an executor or administrator, read our guide Executors and Administrators: Distributing an Estate. This resource was made possible through the generous support of the Law Foundation of Prince Edward Island.