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@DeborahAlsina This is frustrating isn't it? Your mum deserves to have a plan in place for foreseeable events that she's helped to shape & respects her choices.
A few ideas and comments:
1. Advance care planning (#ACP) is the process that considers current & future care needs. Whose job?
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A few ideas and comments:
1. Advance care planning (#ACP) is the process that considers current & future care needs. Whose job?
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@DeborahAlsina #ACP needs teamwork.
*GP is usually the coordinator unless someone else knows a particular person better as their patient.
*Plan belongs to & respects the wishes of the person.
*If the person lacks capacity, a plan using Best Interests decision-making can still be made.
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*GP is usually the coordinator unless someone else knows a particular person better as their patient.
*Plan belongs to & respects the wishes of the person.
*If the person lacks capacity, a plan using Best Interests decision-making can still be made.
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@DeborahAlsina #ACP conversations might include
- person's best hopes/worst dreads. We want a plan to steer us as close as poss to their hopes & as far as poss from their dreads. This is a useful conversation for all of us to have with loved ones.
- decisions to decline specific treatments.
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- person's best hopes/worst dreads. We want a plan to steer us as close as poss to their hopes & as far as poss from their dreads. This is a useful conversation for all of us to have with loved ones.
- decisions to decline specific treatments.
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