Healthcare Navigation & Assistance Services
Clarity and advocacy through complex healthcare decisions.
Serious illness and incapacity bring not only emotional difficulty but a labyrinth of healthcare decisions, institutional processes, and legal obligations. McGuinty Estates Law provides knowledgeable guidance to clients and families navigating the Ontario healthcare system — ensuring that wishes are respected and rights are protected.
Advance Care Planning
An advance care plan documents your wishes regarding medical treatment, resuscitation, and end-of-life care. We help clients articulate and record these wishes in a legally meaningful way, and ensure that attorneys for personal care understand and can act on them.
Healthcare Consent & Capacity
Ontario's Health Care Consent Act governs when and how consent must be obtained for medical treatment. We advise families and substitute decision-makers on their rights and obligations, and assist when disputes arise about a patient's capacity or the appropriateness of proposed treatment.
Assistance Services & Care Coordination
Beyond legal advice, McGuinty Estates Law can assist clients in coordinating care resources, communicating with healthcare providers, and ensuring that the legal framework surrounding a client's care is properly in place and understood by all parties.