Let’s Get It Done, Together: Your Advance Care Planning Guide

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Advance Care Planning (ACP) encompasses the conversations, planning and documentation that outlines for others our values, beliefs and preferences for care when we cannot speak for ourselves—which will likely happen to every one of us at some point in our lives.

Planning ahead is a gift for ourselves and for those we love. But, like all important things, planning takes time and effort. 

The good news is… we’ve put together a free resource to help make this easy for you.

Welcome to your complete Advance Care Planning Guide

The following is a tour through the three major topics of Advance Care Planning. This self-study empowers participants of every age to explore the essential aspects of ACP, at their own pace, and covers everything from avoiding slipping through the cracks of our complex BC healthcare system to understanding all care options available to you during a medical crisis.

It also offers you the rare chance to reflect on and document your own directives and preferences for medical interventions in an emergency or at end-of-life, as a gift to yourself, and to those who may one day act as your care partners.

Please set aside 3-4 hours to commit to this process. If you have questions, we’re here for you every step of the way.

Planning Ahead for Medical Crisis: A Complete Advance Care Planning Guide

Part 1: Navigating the BC Healthcare System

Watch the YouTube video, Navigating the BC Healthcare System.

Read: Most related blog posts take less than 5 minutes each to read

• Care in the Hospital and Discharge Planning

• Understanding Home Care

• Understanding Residential Care

Part 2: Understanding Advance Care Planning (ACP)

Watch: Undertstanding Healthcare Planning

Read:

• Top 4 Reasons to Complete your ACP ASAP

• Who Will Speak for You: Substitute Decision Makers

• Who Will Speak for You: Representation Agreements

• Advance Care Planning with Cognitive Decline and Dementia

• Enduring Power of Attorney in a Healthcare Setting

• Advance Directives, Letters of Wishes and Living Wills

Part 3: Understanding Levels of Resuscitation + Other Medical Interventions

Watch: Understanding “Heroics”, CPR + Levels of Resuscitation

Read:

• Understanding Resuscitation & No CPR

• Understanding Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment (MOST)

Let’s get it done, together

While the above Guide is designed to truly give you everything you need to establish your own official Advance Care Plan, if you simply have no time or need individualized help, our ACP experts can work with you to complete your documentation.

Patient Pathways offers one-on-one Advance Care Planning that seamlessly integrates your medical wishes into the critical documents required by hospitals (aka MOST). This level of personal planning goes above and beyond what any lawyer offers in boilerplate end-of-life documentation - at considerably less cost.

If you have been putting off completing your Advanced Care Planning documents, or they keep falling to the bottom of your to-do list, or if you're waiting for some magic moment like a significant birthday… now really is the time. We’d be delighted to help you get this vital work done.

“Thank you for your help in preparing my final Advance Directive, you made the whole process very easy and manageable. Your experience and knowledge has made all the difference in the comfort level I now feel.”

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