HomeMy WebLinkAboutACP group presentationAdvance Care Planning:
It’s About the Conversation!
Presenter: Emily Edrington
Iowa City/Johnson County Senior Center
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Today’s Topics
Discover advance care planning
Choose your healthcare agent
Explore experiences, goals, values, and beliefs
Express your preferences
Share your plan
Let’s start with a few questions
•What do you understand about advance care
planning?
•What fears or concerns do you have about
this type of planning?
•If you have completed an advance directive in
the past, what do you hope the document
will do for you in the future?
Advance Care Planning is:
•Important for all adults
•Thinking and talking about
future healthcare decisions,
if you had a sudden event
(like a car accident or illness),
and could not make your
own decisions
•Choosing a person close to
you to make decisions for
you
✓Choose a healthcare agent
An agent should be willing to:
•Accept this role
•Talk with you about your goals, values, and
preferences
•Follow your choices, even if he or she does
not agree with them
•Make decisions in difficult moments
Do you know anyone who could do this?
✓Explore experiences
Reflect ...
… Look back
✓Explore living well
“If you were having a good day, what would
happen on that day? Who would you talk to?
What would you do?”
✓Explore beliefs
•What cultural beliefs do you have, if any, that
might help you choose the care you want —
or do not want?
•What spiritual beliefs do you have, if any?
•How can we support your needs or practices?
✓Explore goals for care
Imagine this scenario:
A sudden event (such as a car accident or
illness) left you unable to communicate. You are
receiving all the care needed to keep you alive.
The doctors believe there is little chance (less
than 5%) you will ever recover the ability to
know who you are or who you are with.
In your own words, tell me what this situation means.
What would you want?
Would you want to
continue medical
treatment?
Or, would you want to
stop medical treatment?
In either case, you will be kept comfortable.
Next . . .
✓Follow-up items
✓Talk with your
healthcare agent
✓Meet with a Facilitator
✓Complete an advance
directive
Then. . .
•Give copies to your healthcare agent and healthcare
professionals.
•Talk to the rest of your family and close friends.
Tell them who your healthcare agent is and your
preferences.
•Keep a copy of your advance directive where it can
be easily found.
•Take a copy with you if you go to a hospital or
nursing home and ask for it to be put in your
medical record.
Review Periodically
•Advance care planning is a process, not a
one-time event.
•Preferences may change as circumstances
change.
•Review your advance directive every time
you have a physical exam.
And. . .
Whenever any of the “Five Ds” occur:
Decade
Death of a loved one
Divorce
Diagnosis
Decline
Thank you!
For more information, visit
www.honoringyourwishes.org