Episode 7: Jason Chen, PhD, HEC-C — HealthCarePOA | Who Makes Your Healthcare Decisions When You Can't?
What happens if you’re unable to make your own healthcare decisions—and you don’t have a spouse, children, or another trusted person who can step in?
In Episode 7 of GSL Local Business Spotlight, Robert Rippey sits down with Jason Chen, PhD, HEC-C, founder of HealthCarePOA, to explore an issue many people may never consider until they’re faced with a medical crisis: Who will speak for you when you can’t speak for yourself?
Jason introduces us to the growing population of solo agers—people who may not have an appropriate spouse, adult child, family member, or trusted friend available to serve as their healthcare decision-maker—and explains how a professional healthcare power-of-attorney agent can help fill that critical role.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- What a healthcare power of attorney actually is
- What happens when someone becomes incapacitated without an appropriate healthcare decision-maker
- What it means to be a solo ager
- Why someone might choose a professional healthcare power-of-attorney agent
- The role of ethics, personal values, and trust in medical decision-making
- How Jason’s background in philosophy, bioethics, and patient advocacy shaped HealthCarePOA
- How a professional agent learns a client’s wishes before a medical crisis occurs
- Common misconceptions surrounding healthcare powers of attorney
- The challenges of building a business in a professional category many people don’t yet know exists
Whether you’re planning for your own future, helping an aging loved one, or simply haven’t thought about who would make medical decisions for you if you couldn’t make them yourself, this episode offers an important conversation about planning ahead.
Learn more about Jason and HealthCarePOA at HealthCarePOA.net.
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