1. A person who has made a Power of Attorney for Personal Care document can no longer make his or her own treatment decisions.

2. A health care provider can ask the Consent and Capacity Board to review a substitute decision maker's consent decision.

3. Someone named in a Power of Attorney for Personal Care can appoint another person to make decisions for the resident.

4. If a resident has two equally ranked substitute decision makers, and one provides consent to treatment but the other refuses, the health care provider proposing treatment must wait for them to agree.

5. A substitute decision maker can consent on a resident’s behalf, even if the resident is capable.

6. Even if a resident is capable, informed consent for treatment must also be obtained from the person named in the resident's Power of Attorney for Personal Care document.

7. When making a treatment decision for a resident, a substitute decision maker must consider a resident's wishes before considering the resident's best interests.

8. A substitute decision maker can ask the Consent and Capacity Board for permission to depart from a resident's known wish.

9. Ontario's Health Care Consent Act includes principles that substitute decision makers are to follow when making treatment decisions for someone else.

10. A person is considered a resident's "spouse" only if that person is married to the resident.