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Advance Care Planning
Advance care planning 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.
Your Advance Care Plan can also include:
• A Representation Agreement where you write your instructions and name someone to make your health and personal care decisions if you become incapable.
• An Advance Directive with your instructions for health and personal care that are given to your health care provider, which he/she must follow directly when it speaks to the care you need at the time.
• An Enduring Power of Attorney where you appoint someone to make decisions about your financial affairs, business and property.
• An Advance Directive with your instructions for health and personal care that are given to your health care provider, which he/she must follow directly when it speaks to the care you need at the time.
• An Enduring Power of Attorney where you appoint someone to make decisions about your financial affairs, business and property.
Personal
planning is about making legal arrangements in the event you need assistance
managing your affairs during your lifetime due to illness, injury or
disability. Personal planning can address all areas of your life – health care,
personal care, legal affairs, and financial affairs.
The Nidus Personal Planning Resource Centre is a non-profit, charitable organization. Nidus provides education on personal planning – making legal arrangements in case you need assistance with things such as paying bills or making health care decisions due to illness, injury or disability. The Nidus website contains optional forms for Representation Agreements, as well as information on Enduring Powers of Attorney and health care consent.
Nidus operates a centralized Registry for personal planning documents, including Representation Agreements, Enduring Powers of Attorney, Advance Directives, My Voice Expression of Wishes, Nominations of Committee and Notices of Revocations.
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