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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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