Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
3326319 NPG Neurologie - Psychiatrie - Gériatrie 2011 10 Pages PDF
Abstract
The mandate for future protection, recently introduced in French law, allows the elderly to take measures for their old days. These measures, either patrimonial or extrapatrimonial (protection of the person), are taken in advance by the person himself/herself, in the eventuality that he/she could no more act alone. This new legal instrument allows to organise a conventional protection which will be set up only if necessary, under the control of the judge. It is a way to avoid judicial protection measures, which are much more binding. Questioning arises about this mandate: is it possible to insert wishes about one's medicalized end of life? What are the difference between the mandate for future protection and the other conventional instruments, which were also recently introduced into the French law?
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