Life-sustaining treatment: option A or option B explained
The one decision on the LP1H that people find hardest, explained plainly.
Health and care decisions
What a Health & Welfare LPA actually lets someone decide, and how it sits alongside advance decisions and NHS best-interests processes.
Main pages on this topic
- Health & Welfare LPA
The LP1H: care, treatment decisions and life-sustaining treatment.
- Make an LPA online
The whole journey end to end: questions, documents, signing and registration.
Every page in this topic (10)
Advance decision (living will) or health LPA?
The difference between a living will and a health LPA, and how they interact.
What can a health and welfare attorney actually decide?
The real scope of an LP1H, decision by decision.
Choosing a care home as an attorney
A best-interests process for a move into residential care.
NHS Continuing Healthcare and your LPA
How to pursue CHC funding as an attorney, and how the assessment works.
DNACPR decisions and your health and welfare LPA
Where an attorney fits into resuscitation decisions.
Making care decisions for someone with dementia
Handling fluctuating capacity, refusal of care and restrictive decisions.
Hospital discharge: an attorney's rights
How to influence a discharge decision, and what to do when it feels unsafe.
LPAs and the Mental Health Act
How sectioning affects an attorney's authority.
End-of-life decisions as an attorney
Palliative care, place of death and withdrawal of treatment.
Other topics
- LPA basics
- LPA costs and fees
- Choosing which LPA you need
- Attorneys and certificate providers
- Forms, wording and signing
- Registration and using an LPA
- Money, tax and property
- Parents, couples and capacity
- Disputes and safeguards
Most people make both LPAs
Property & Financial Affairs and Health & Welfare together cost £79 instead of £98 separately.
The Office of the Public Guardian charges a separate £92 to register each LPA.