Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Planning is an often-overlooked aspect of an individual’s health care. We often hear of people’s confidence when they speak of their death preparations. You may already have a Will in place, a Power of Attorney at the ready, a ‘DNR’ order signed, and your funeral planned and paid for. What you may not know is that your Will, your Power of Attorney, and Do Not Resuscitate forms will not help your loved ones make health and care decisions on your behalf should you not be able to (i.e.) such as in a medical emergency situation, or if you are unconsciousness, or in a coma.
Advance Care Planning ensures that your loved ones are clear about what personal & medical care decisions you’d like to have happen should you be unable to speak for yourself.
Death is a subject most of us avoid discussing but talking about it can help reposition how we feel about our mortality. We all want a ‘good death’ but what does that actually mean? We all know that dying is inevitable, but dying poorly should not be (Chochinov). An Advance Care Plan can help you consider and articulate what you’d like your best possible death experience to be like.
Your Advance Care Planning sessions include support with:
Putting an End to Procrastination
We know how difficult it is to face the reality of our own mortality. And yet, we all know death will happen ‘someday’ for each of us.
At Soulfull Departures, we support you with the tools and resources to help you stop procrastinating with end-of-life planning
Understanding Your Options
There is so much information to process in planning in advance for your end-of-life care.
At Soulfull Departures, we help you navigate and uncover what guidelines you’d like to include in your departure directions based on your own unique and personal values, beliefs and priorities.
Defining Your Care Priorities
Minimizing your suffering while maintaining your dignity and cultural & spiritual needs is an essential priority in end-of-life planning (and is what makes you unique).
At Soulfull Departures, we support you in deciding, articulating, and documenting what to include in your departure directions so that you and your loved ones can feel confident in what decisions they may be asked to make on your behalf should they ever need to. (In British Columbia, these are known as the Rep 7 & Rep 9 Agreements)
*When making end-of-life decisions, we encourage you to consult with your healthcare provider. Please note that this content is provided for informational purposes and should not be interpreted as medical or legal advice.
Understand your options
The breadth of your personal representative’s abilities depends on what decision-making powers you give them in your representative agreement.
In planning for possible future incapability, people can choose to make a representation agreement, giving the person of their choice (their “representative”) the authority to make personal and health care decisions on their behalf. If you choose to do this, your chosen representative will be authorized in your representation agreement to handle your personal and health care matters only – and, further, only those personal and health care matters that you authorize in your agreement.