Advance Care Planning
Unless people know what is important to somebody they will not be able to take their wishes into account in relation to their future care and management.
Advance care planning can be used to let others know about an individual’s preferred choices in all aspects of care. It should be a voluntary process by which a person with mental capacity is enabled to identify their wishes, to provide information in future when the person may be unable to make their wishes known.
Having an advance care plan has been shown to reduce the level of stress, anxiety and depression that family members experience in their caring role and can help prevent future crises.
More information can be found via the following sources of support:
