If you’re aged 18 or older, you can arrange for someone else to make decisions for you – especially related to finance, property and healthcare – in the future. This legal authority is called ‘lasting power of attorney’
Why? You may need to make longer-term plans if, for example, you have been diagnosed with dementia and you may lose the mental capacity to make your own decisions. So a LPA is often your spouse, or an adult son or daughter
This is a good video about LPA
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