Advance care planning
                     Advance care planning
Introduction
Advance care planning 
is not just about old 
age. At any age, a 
medical crisis could 
leave you too ill to 
make your own 
health care decisions.
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What Is 
Advance 
Care 
Planning?
Advance care planning involves 
learning about the types of 
decisions that might need to 
be made, considering those 
decisions ahead of time, and 
then letting others know—
both your family and your 
health care providers—about 
your preferences. 
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Advance 
Care 
Planning 
Decisions
Sometimes decisions must be made 
about the use of emergency 
treatments to keep you alive. 
Decisions that might come up at this 
time relate to:
• CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation)
• Ventilator use
• Artificial nutrition (tube feeding) and 
artificial hydration (IV, or 
intravenous, fluids)
• Comfort care
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What is 
CPR? 
Cardiopulmonary 
resuscitation might 
restore your heartbeat if 
your heart stops or is in a 
life-threatening abnormal 
rhythm. It involves 
repeatedly pushing on the 
chest with force, while 
putting air into the lungs. 
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Using 
artifi cial 
nutrition 
and 
hydration 
near the 
end of l ife
If you are not able to eat, 
you may be fed through a 
feeding tube that is 
threaded through the nose 
down to your stomach. If 
tube feeding is still needed 
for an extended period, a 
feeding tube may be 
surgically inserted directly 
into your stomach.
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What is 
comfort 
care at the 
end of l ife?
Comfort care is 
anything that can be 
done to soothe you 
and relieve suffering 
while staying in line 
with your wishes. 
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Advance 
Care 
Planning
Start by thinking about 
what kind of 
treatment you do or 
do not want in a 
medical emergency.
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Why it's 
important?
• It helps to ensure you receive the care you 
actually want
• It improves ongoing and end-of-life care, 
along with personal and family satisfaction
• Families of people who have undertaken 
advance care planning have less anxiety, 
depression, stress and are more satisfied 
with care
• For healthcare professionals and 
organisations, it reduces unnecessary 
transfers to acute care and unwanted 
treatment
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Planning is 
for everyone
• It is particularly important if you:
• are older
• have a chronic illness
• have multiple diseases
• have an early cognitive 
impairment
• are approaching the end of 
your life
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The process
Advance care planning doesn't need 
to be complicated but it does require 
careful consideration. It involves 
thinking about your values and 
preferences for care and acceptable 
outcomes, talking about them with 
others, appointing someone to make 
decisions on your behalf and 
documenting everything.
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