Advance Care Planning

Advance Care Planning involves making a plan for future health and personal care should a person lose their decision-making capacity.

Advance Care Planning captures peoples’ values and wishes. It enables them to continue to influence treatment decisions, even when they can no longer actively participate.

Having the conversation and listening and documenting patient wishes about future treatment is a part of ongoing planning for future care. This is pivotal for person centred care, focusing on the needs of the person and increases the likelihood of a person’s wishes being known and respected.

Advance Care Planning is a 3-step process:

Advance care planning forms for adults

All Advance Care Planning forms can be found here.

Advance care directive forms

• Advance care directive for adults
• Instructions for completing the Advance care directive form
• Advance care directive for adults for someone signing on your behalf
• Revocation of an advance care directive form

Medical treatment decision maker forms

• Appointment of medical treatment decision maker form
• Checklist of steps for appointing your medical treatment decision maker
• Appointment of medical treatment decision maker form (long)
• Appointment of medical treatment decision maker for someone signing on your behalf
• Revocation of medical treatment decision maker form
• Resignation of medical treatment decision maker form

Support person forms

• Appointment of support person form
• Revocation of support person form
• Resignation of support person form

Advance Care Planning Forms for young people under 18 years old

• Advance care directive for young people under 18 years of age - interactive
• Information for clinicians working with young people under 18 years of age
• Instructions completing Advance care directive for young people under 18 years of age form