The Advance Care Planning Process:
To Communicate Your Choices
What is Advance Care Planning?
Advance Care Planning (ACP) is a process to help you identify your
health care choices and communicate them to your family and your
health care providers.
Advance Care Planning means:
• Understanding possible future health choices
• Thinking about these choices in light of what is important
to you
• Talking about your decisions with loved ones and your doctors
• Putting your plans in writing so they will be ready if they
are needed
Most likely, this will be an ongoing process that takes more than
one conversation. The goal of advance care planning is for you to
live well, in a way that is meaningful to you, for as long as you
live.
Click on Living
Will to
print out the North Carolina Living Will form.
Click
on Health
Care Power of Attorney to print out the North Carolina
Health Care Power of Attorney form.
Click on
Tool Kit
to go to the American Bar Association's Consumer's Tool Kit for
Health Care Advance Planning.
Click on
ACP Q&As
for more on Advance Care Planning.
Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter offers free assistance
with Advance Care Planning to identify and communicate your health
care choices. Call 910.796-7943 or 800.733.1476 for an appointment or schedule of ACP workshops.
A portion of this information was taken from Isn’t It
Time We Talk?, a two-state public awareness campaign sponsored by
The Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care.
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