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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

10. 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.