1. 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.

2. 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.

3. If a resident has no higher ranked substitute decision makers, but one child is older than the other, the eldest child will be the substitute decision maker.

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. A substitute decision maker needs to be capable, willing, and available in order to make decisions for a resident.