advanced care planning videos
1. Advance care planning
This short video explains why advance care planning is important for you and is perfect for sharing with family members.
Source: PlanWell Guide
2. Mental capability
While people often speak of legal capacity or competence as an either/or thing, when it comes to your health and personal care, it can be quite different - depending on the person’s abilities and the function for which capacity is required.
Note: This image will not take you to a video. Visit the Seniors First BC website and search the word capability for more information. Source: Seniors First BC
3. Conversations Matter
A video featuring families, doctors and researchers who have had advance care planning conversations.
Source: PlanWell Guide
4. State of Health
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
5. Values and beliefs
Help people close to you honour your health care wishes.
Source: Victoria Hospice Society
6. Preferences for future health care
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
7. Choosing your substitute decision-maker
Find out what it takes to be a substitute decision maker.
Source: Fraser Health Authority
8. Representation Agreement
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
9. Advance Directives
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
10. End-of-life planning
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.
11.My advance care planning documents
Click on this link to watch the "Put it in Writing" music video: Death Literacy Songbook (bevival.com).
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