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A living will regulates, as a precaution, which medical measures should be taken or excluded in an emergency. It applies when the patient can no longer express his or her wishes or is incapable of acting. However, the wishes specified can be revoked at a later date verbally or even through non-verbal behavior. This is one of the reasons why determining the current (presumed) wishes of the patient is particularly difficult in people with advanced dementia. One possible scenario is that a person with dementia resists medical treatment “tooth and nail” against the specified living will. But how can doctors, nursing staff and caring relatives act in such situations in a legally secure manner? Univ.-Prof. Dr. jur. Christian Jäger holds the chair for criminal law, criminal procedural law, commercial and medical criminal law at the Faculty of Law and Economics at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is also the director of the Research Center for Commercial and Medical Criminal Law, also at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. In the webinar, he will present the basics of the living will and address the problems surrounding the implementation of the living will for people with dementia.