Life Care Planning
Life Care Planning involves choosing someone to represent your health care wishes if there’s a time in the future when you can’t speak, and deciding what you want that person to say.
About Life Care Planning
Also known as advance care planning, life care planning is all about planning ahead for your future health wishes if there comes a time when you aren’t able to make decisions for yourself.
While it may be uncomfortable to think about, many of us have gone through an end-of-life situation with someone close to us and learned how important it is to be prepared.
Life care planning involves two major choices:
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Selecting someone you trust to make your health care decisions if you are incapable.
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Giving specific instructions about your care in the event of a sudden injury or illness.
These are very important decisions, so it is best to make them after carefully considering your values, beliefs and experiences.
Advance Directives
An advance directive is a form that describes the kinds of medical care you want to have if you're badly hurt or have a serious illness and can't speak for yourself. A living will (declaration) and a medical power of attorney (durable power of attorney for health care) are types of advance directives.