At Allina Home & Community Services we encourage you to have a discussion with your loved ones about your goals and values for future health care needs. An advance care plan provides information to others about your wishes in case illness or injury prevents you from telling them yourself.
Advance care planning is designed to help anyone, healthy or sick, communicate their wishes for medical treatment. This planning process wil clarify what your family and friends need to know if you become unable to make health care decisions for yourself.
When you put these wishes in writing, this kind of plan is called an advance directive or health care directive.
Advance care planning is a process of:
Understanding your health care treatment options
Clarifying your health care goals
Weighing your options about what kind of care and treatment you would want or not want
Making decisions about whether you want to appoint a health care agent or complete a health care directive
Communicating your wishes and any documents with your family, friends and health care provider
Do you need help?
Contact us at 651-635-9173 for help completing an advance care planning session, a health care directive or for an advance care planning facilitator to meet with you in a clinic or community setting.
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At Allina Home & Community Services we encourage you to have a discussion with your loved ones about your goals and values for future health care needs. An advance care plan provides information to others about your wishes in case illness or injury prevents you from telling them yourself.
