benefits may include: Completing My Advance Care Plan • Giving the gift of guidance, confidence, and strength to those closest to you in the Advance care planning for healthcare choices event that you become ill and they have to is a process of thinking and talking about speak for you complex and sensitive issues, and then • Reducing the emotional distress on those sharing. [...] • What will help you live your life well now? • Where would you prefer to spend your last What about in the future? few weeks or days? What would be your ideal surroundings at this time? • What medical conditions would make you want to change your goals of medical • Who do you want with you at the end of care from prolonging your life, to focusing your life? on comfort measures only? Describe the. [...] This is a Lot to Talk About Remember, although it is difficult to know the details of any future illness you have, talking about your beliefs, values, and goals for living well at the end of life will help those closest to you to make medical decisions for you when you can not. [...] The best way to ensure that doctor will consider your wishes, but is you receive the type of care you want is not ethically obliged to order or perform to take a copy of your advance care plan treatments for you that are not medically with you whenever you travel and give indicated. [...] You must sign and date this advance care plan to indicate to your healthcare providers and those close to you that you are in agreement with the wishes you have expressed.
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