Advance care planning (ACP) begins by thinking about your beliefs, values and wishes regarding future health care treatment. It is about having conversations with your close family, friends and health care provider(s) so that they know the health care treatment you would agree to, or refuse, if you become incapable of expressing your own decisions.
When you write down your wishes and instructions for future health care, you are making an Advance Care Plan. An Advance Care Plan is a written summary of a capable adult’s wishes or instructions to guide a substitute decision maker if that person is asked by a physician or other health care provider to make a health care treatment decision on behalf of the adult.
Two resources for you to use and share —
♥ Living Well, Planning Well: An Advance Care Planning Resource (link) and ♥ a 2-page fillable form as PDF (link)
credit: www.murrayphn.org.au/
See also: Advance Care Planning Canada and Government of British Columbia. (USA) National Institute of Aging and Centers for Disease Control and Infection.
Thanks for these links! Being prepared will help reduce the stress, angst and tough decisions your loved ones will be fac
ed with.
Thanks for these links! Being prepared will help reduce the stress, angst and tough decisions your loved ones will be faced with.