Editing Power of attorney (section)

===Health care===
In some jurisdictions, a durable power of attorney can also be a "health care power of attorney."  This particular affidavit gives the attorney-in-fact the authority to make health-care decisions for the grantor, up to and including terminating care and life support. The grantor can typically modify or restrict the powers of the agent to make end-of-life decisions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ksbar.org/public/public_resources/pamphlets/living_wills.shtml |publisher=Kansas Bar Association |title=Living Wills And The Durable Power Of attorney For Health Care |access-date=2008-05-03}}</ref> In many jurisdictions a health care power of attorney is also referred to as a "[[health care proxy]]" and, as such, the two terms are sometimes used interchangeably.

====Relationship with advance health care directive====
Related to the health care power of attorney is a separate document known as an [[advance health care directive]], also called a "living will". A [[living will]] is a written statement of a person's health care and medical wishes but does not appoint another person to make health care decisions. Depending upon the jurisdiction, a health care power of attorney may or may not appear with an advance health care directive in a single, physical document. For example, the California legislature has adopted a standard power of attorney for health care and advance health care directive form that meets all of that state's legal wording requirements for a power of attorney and advance health care directive in a single document.<ref>{{cite book|last=Clark|first=Elias|title=Gratuitous Transfers: Wills, Intestate Succession, Trusts, Gifts, Future Interests, and Estate and Gift Taxation|year=2007|publisher=Thomson/West|location=St. Paul, MN|isbn=978-0-314-16040-9|pages=311|display-authors=etal}}</ref> By comparison, New York enacted a Health Care Proxy law that requires a separate document to appoint someone as one's health care agent.<ref>{{cite book|title=New York Code, Public Health Law, Sec. 2981|publisher=State of New York}}</ref>