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.
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)
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 (PDF).
