Summary

This includes anything to do with your future care and allows you to express your preferences about the care you’d like to receive.

It can include:

• What you want to happen
• What you don’t want to happen
• Who’ll speak on your behalf

 

Detail

There are several ways people can make plans in advance. This may lead to people wanting none or some of the following:

• An ‘Advance Statement’ Eg: recording a preference about staying at home
• An ‘Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment’ (ADRT) ie: recording a preference not to receive treatment
• A Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) decision
• Appointing a Lasting Power of Attorney for health and care
• Or other types of decision Eg: writing a will