An advance care plan (ACP) provides guidance to healthcare providers, family members, and your chosen decision-makers in critical situations if you become incapable of making decisions on your own.
Tips & Links
- An ACP can serve as a communication tool with those you trust, to help you express your values, beliefs, and final wishes for care and treatment at the end-of-life.
- An ACP is not itself a legal document however, it may contain legal documents such as your representation agreement, power of attorney (enduring), and/or an advance directive.
- Learn about writing an advance care plan by using the My Voice-An Advance Planning Guide available in many languages from the government of BC.
- Complete the templates and discussion questions about advance care planning from Advance Care Planning Canada.
- Healthlink BC offers a list of resources to learn about advance care planning.
- Explore ACP Canada for current articles, stories, and resources.
- If you or someone you care for has been diagnosed with dementia, review this dementia end of life booklet from the Alzheimer’s Society.
- Learn about free legal counselling services on advance care planning from Senior’s First BC.
- Your caregivers should all know if you have a Do Not Resuscitate or No CPR order, a written advance directive or Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment (MOST) document, are an organ donor, and/or if you have a written advance care plan.
- Your Mywell Health planner has been designed to organize all your decision documents in one place – keep digital and print copies in the section My End-of-Life Decisions.
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