Advance Care Planning
- Advance Care Planning (ACP) provides an opportunity to plan for future care and support, including medical treatment.
- The ACP process helps individuals understand and share their personal preferences and values regarding future care and treatment.
- ACP can improve health care communication, clarify care goals, prepare individuals for end of life, and decrease family caregiver burden.
- Most older adults have not engaged in ACP and even fewer have discussed ACP with their family physicians (NIH, 2018).
- Older adults and families can find the resources and information they need to connect with appropriate ACP supports and services.
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Key Articles
- Getting Your Affairs in Order: Advance Care Planning Checklist
- Advance Care Planning: Healthcare Directives
- Advance Directives and Long-term Care
- Honoring Choices Virginia: Planning Resources and Tools
- AARP's Prepare to Care: A Planning Guide for Families
- Make a Medical Plan and Hospital "Go Bag" During COVID-19
- Virginia Advance Health Directives
Tip Sheets & Tools
- Because I Love You Guide from Honoring Choices Virginia
- Advance Care Planning: Tips from the National Institute on Aging
- Advance Directive Wallet Card
- CDC Complete Care Plan Form
- Tool Kit for Health Care Advance Planning from the ABA
- Conversation Starter Guides
- Who Will Speak for You? VIDEO (TCP)
- How to Talk to Your Doctor
- POLST Standard of Care Summary
- Choosing Your Own Path VIDEO (HCV)
Stay Connected
- Aging with Dignity (Five Wishes)
- The Conversation Project
- Honoring Choices Virginia
- PREPARE for Your Care
- POLST - Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment
- The Virginia POST Collaborative
- MYLO - Mind Your Loved Ones App (in cooperation with the ABA)
- CaringInfo (program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization)
Visit the AgingCare Caregiver Forum to interact with other caregivers!
Your Local Programs
- Virginia Area Agencies on Aging
- Connect Virginia (Virginia Advance Health Care Directives Registry)
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