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Advance care planning is a process to help you plan and record your future wishes and priorities of care with those close to you. This means there is a record of your wishes when you may no longer be able to make or communicate such decisions.
An Advance Statement is a written record of general beliefs and aspects of life a person values; wishes and preferences for future care. This is not legally binding.
An Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment (ADRT) is different from the Advance Statement that encourages you to record your future wishes and preferences. An ADRT, if completed properly, is a legally binding document that allows you to refuse certain treatments, that would not be acceptable to you, in the future. You cannot request treatments this way. For example, if you developed severe swallowing problems as part of another condition and if you felt that being fed by a tube was intolerable then you could develop an ADRT document to formally state this.
This is when a decision is made on your behalf when you are no longer able to do so. It will take into account many factors and views. This can include an Advance Statement (if you have made one) as well as the opinions and views of others i.e. family, friends and professional carers who know you well. If your Admiral Nurse, or another health care professional, is helping you to complete this document then please ask if you need more information on this.
Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) – Property and Financial Affairs This allows you to choose someone to make decisions about how to spend your money and manage your property and affairs when you no longer have the capacity to do so for yourself.
This allows you to choose someone to make decisions about your health care and welfare. This includes decisions to consent to or refuse treatment on your behalf, including deciding where you live when you no longer have the capacity to do so for yourself. All LPAs are only valid when registered with the Office of Public Guardian
