BC Cancer has resources to support health care providers in discussing advance care planning with patients at different stages throughout their care.
Advance Care Planning (ACP) is the process of thinking about and sharing your values, beliefs, and preferences towards care with your loved ones and health-care team. There are many known benefits of advance care planning, including supporting goal-concordant care, improving quality of life, reducing anxiety and depression at end of life, and improving satisfaction with care.
Substitute Decision Makers and Representation Agreements are a common area of confusion for both health-care providers and patients. The BC Centre for Palliative Care has created several helpful resources to support health-care providers, patients and substitute decision makers with this topic.
For more information:
Substitute Decision Makers - BC Centre for Palliative Care (bc-cpc.ca)
For more information about Advance Care Planning visit the Ministry of Health Advance Care Planning or Ministry of Justice Incapacity Planning page.
If you are a health-care provider in BC and want to know more about BC’s health care consent laws, see the Health Care Providers’ Guide to Consent to Health Care.
