Advance Care Planning (ACP) is the process of thinking about and sharing your values, beliefs, and preferences towards care with your loved ones and health-care team. There are many known benefits of advance care planning, including supporting goal-concordant care, improving quality of life, reducing anxiety and depression at end of life, and improving satisfaction with care.
First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) - Preparing a Basket with What Matters to You: A brochure developed by FNHA in collaboration with Indigenous communities to introduce ACP.
Serious Illness Conversation Guide: Suggested language to support Serious Illness Conversations
First Nations Health Authority Adapted Serious Illness Conversation Guide
Substitute Decision Makers and Representation Agreements are a common area of confusion for both health-care providers and patients. The BC Centre for Palliative Care has created several helpful resources to support health-care providers, patients and substitute decision makers with this topic.
For more information: Substitute Decision Makers - BC Centre for Palliative Care (bc-cpc.ca)
You’ve Been Named a Substitute Decision Maker, Now What?: Guide to support substitute decision makers in understanding their role.
Temporary Substitute Decision Maker List: A list people can fill out with contact information of their temporary substitute decision makers. This is a helpful document for health-care providers so they know who to contact in the event of an emergency.
EnhancedRepresentation Agreement (Section 9) – Page 44-49 of My Voice Booklet
Standard Representation Agreement (Section 7) – Page 34-39 of My Voice Booklet
For more information about Advance Care Planning visit the Ministry of Health Advance Care Planning or Ministry of Justice Incapacity Planning page.
If you are a health-care provider in BC and want to know more about BC’s health care consent laws, see the Health Care Providers’ Guide to Consent to Health Care.