id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
inlawrev-2764	Thompson, William H.	Indiana's New Health Care Consent Act: A Guiding Light for the Health Care Provider	1988	24	.pdf	application/pdf	10214	439	55	[Vol. 21:181 little judicial or legislative attention has been paid to the problem of who is authorized to give consent for the incapable patient and less surprisingly, the practice varies considerably from state to state/ Indiana's new Health Care Consent Act,^ effective April 24, 1987, provides statutory authority by which capable individuals may delegate to others the power to make health care decisions on their behalf in the event of their incapacity. These exceptions are based on the assumption that a minor who has made certain * 'adult-like decisions or taken certain actions in his life has demonstrated capacity to make health care decisions. ^^	cache/inlawrev-2764.pdf	txt/inlawrev-2764.txt