Planning for Your Future Care – A Guide

Document first published:: 1 September 2014
Page updated:: 20 December 2017
Publication type:: Guidance
Medical Conditions and Contexts of Care:: End of Life Care
Improvement Challenges:

The National End of Life Care Programme, the Dying Matters coalition and the University of Nottingham, originally published this in 2009. It was revised in 2012 and republished by NHS Improving Quality in 2014 following the National End of Life Care Programme becoming part of NHS Improving Quality in 2013.

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Planning for Your Future Care A Guide

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Summary

Advance care planning is a process of making people aware of your wishes when planning for end of life care. This booklet provides an explanation about advance care planning and the different options open to you. The booklet uses some of the terms contained within the framework of the Mental
Capacity Act (2005).