This short video explains why advance care planning is important for you and is perfect for sharing with family members.
Source: PlanWell Guide
While people often speak of legal capacity or competence as either/or, when it comes to health and personal care, it can be quite different—depending on the person’s abilities and the function for which capacity is required.
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A video featuring families, doctors and researchers who have had advance care planning conversations.
Source: PlanWell Guide
The Canadian Frailty Network has produced a number of short videos on how to avoid frailty. Watch this "Protein" episode with BodyBreak Hal Johnson & Joanne McLeod to learn more.
Source: Canadian Frailty Network
Help people close to you honour your health care wishes.
Source: Victoria Hospice Society
When admitted to hospital for medical care, most patients recover from their illness and have little or no decrease in their quality of life. However, depending on your level of health before being hospitalized, some encounter a declining or low level of function or quality of life. This video is about reviewing what medical treatments are the best option for you.
Source: PlanWell Guide
Find out what it takes to be a substitute decision maker.
Source: Fraser Health Authority
This video reviews the substitute decision-maker process and also talks about the need for a representation agreement in B.C. Source: Victoria Hospice Society
This frank discussion on anticipatory care planning in Scotland helps to describe the principle of advance directives and option of palliative home care in British Columbia.
Source: Living Well Communities
Witness the wrenching emotions that accompany end-of-life decisions as doctors, patients and families in a hospital ICU face difficult decisions. This is the trailer for a documentary film by the same title, streaming on Netflix.
Click on this link to watch the "Put it in Writing" music video: Death Literacy Songbook (bevival.com).
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