Carolyn M. Young is a fiduciary services agent in northern California who helps clients arrange living wills and powers of attorney. A living will outlines one's wishes for healthcare if they become incapacitated and unable to make decisions, but does not deal with inheritance. It can specify preferences around life support and aligning care with religious beliefs. A durable power of attorney for healthcare appoints an agent to make medical decisions based on the principal's wishes. Together a living will and healthcare power of attorney provide safeguards for healthcare preferences when one can no longer make their own decisions.

1. ARRANGING A LIVING WILL AND
POWERS OF ATTORNEY
CAROLYN M. YOUNG FIDUCIARY SERVICES

2. INTRODUCTION
 Carolyn M. Young is a respected northern California fiduciary services
agent who meets needs of clients throughout the Sacramento area.
Assuming a position of trust for those without the ability to make financial
and medical decisions on their own, Carolyn M. Young helps families
navigate multiple complex issues.
Such issues include the decision to draw up a living will or healthcare
power of attorney. Composed and signed while the principal is still legally
competent, these two documents set out one’s wishes when it comes to
health care, and are not mutually exclusive.
Durable power of attorney for health care complements the living will by
setting in place an appointed health care agent.

3. LIVING WILL
 This provides the safeguard of having a representative who understands
the principal’s wishes and is responsible for arranging care that adheres to
his or her preferences.
The living will does not deal with inheritance issues, as with a conventional
will, but is strictly limited to health care preferences in situations where the
physician has determined a person no longer has the capacity to make
medical decisions. Decision points include whether to extend time on life
support, or to make sure care is aligned with religious preferences.