1. When equally ranked substitute decision makers disagree, the healthcare provider can go to the Public Guardian and Trustee for consent.

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

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

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

5. If a resident never shared any wishes, a substitute decision maker can substitute their own wishes.

6. A resident's substitute decision maker can decide whether or not the resident is capable of making treatment decisions.

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

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