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Thinking Ahead Booklet
There may come a time when you have to rely on someone else to care for you and act on your behalf.
This can happen at any stage in life because of illness, accident,or mental distress.Before this happens, it is beneficial to record your wishes and values about your care for those who need to know.
This document will help you think about the care you want and don’t want, under many circumstances. This is your opportunity to clearly record your wishes
About My Advance Health Carer Directive
A place to record your healthcare choices and appoint somebody
to speak on your behalf, should you lack decision-making
capacity to advocate for yourself through illness, accident, or
mental distress. This document is legally binding when properly
signed and witnessed.
An Advance Healthcare Directive is used to inform those who need to know about your treatment and care. As these decisions can be confusing or overwhelming, we highly recommend talking with your GP/Specialist about your options, and sharing your decisions with family and friends.
Advance Healthcare Directives are normally written down, but can include voice or video recording and speech recognition technologies that are written out at a later time. If you make any Advance Healthcare Directive in a language other than English or Irish, you should arrange to have it translated in case nobody is on-site who can translate it when needed.
An Advance Healthcare Directive is made up of three key parts:
- Refusing medical and treatment options.
- Requesting medical and treatment options.
- Appointing someone to carry out your choices and speak on your behalf.
My Medical Summary Form
My Medical Summary Form
This Medical Summary Form is not a legal document but a summary of
your care and treatment decisions and preferences, to be shared with
your GP/Specialist.
Use this form to summarise what you have recorded in your Personal
Wishes and Care Plan, and your Advance Healthcare Directive.
Ask your GP/Specialist to add this form to your medical file, so that if
in the future your decisions and preferences need to be known, your
medical team is aware that you have completed these documents.
not a legal document