Advanced Care Planning
Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Planning is a process that enables individuals to make plans about their future health care. Advance Care Plans provide direction to healthcare professions when a person is not in a position to make and/or communicate their own healthcare choices.
In Ontario, Advance Care Planning (ACP) is:
• Confirming your substitute decision maker(s) (SDMs)
-and-
• Communicating your wishes, values and beliefs about care to help your SDM(s) make health and personal care decisions for you if you become mentally incapable of doing so for yourself.