Are your family all on the same page?

Do you know what end-of-life care your mum, dad, spouse or partner would want? Do you and other family members have a readily available copy of their wishes in case of an emergency? The same copy?

Your family needs an Advance Care Plan.

What is an Advance Care Plan?

An Advance Care Plan is a document where your loved one:

It’s more than that though.

Preparing an Advance Care Plan is a chance for families to have loving, forgiving, healing conversations that draw you all closer and help everyone prepare for the future.

It can be a difficult time when your loved one cannot speak for themselves.

But, with an advance care plan in place, you will have their known wishes to help guide the decisions you make, together with other family members and medical or care providers.

"I can't believe that him scrolling the questionnaire on his phone on a sunny afternoon 2 years ago would become so important. We very much wanted to respect his wishes and help the doctors understand the life he wanted. The trauma team were so impressed that he had this readily available and easy to read plan, and were able to make decisions based on this. I very much recommend that everyone has a Touchstone Life Care plan as the decision making for his care was made so much easier."

I live in Australia, my sister lives in New Zealand and my brother lives in the UK. This would have been so useful when our dad passed away 4 years ago. Knowing what he wanted would really have made a difference.

My mum nearly lost her life last year. Her aged care facility gave a copy of her Advance Care Directive to the ambulance staff but it got lost somewhere along the way. She’d put so much careful thought into that plan and it was heartbreaking to realise it was totally useless when it was most needed.

Dad had a paper advance care plan in place. But it turned out he’d ticked ‘yes’ he wanted CPR and ‘yes’ to Do Not Resuscitate so his doctors didn’t know what to do when he went into cardiac arrest and neither did I. It was horrible.

My dad and I did our questionnaires together. It got us talking about things we had never discussed before. It was so easy.

Integrated with Aged Care Provider systems across Australia.
Helps create a description of your loved one including what is important to them and what they need others to know about them.
Shares their choice of state directive form or completed questionnaire with those people involved in their care, including chosen family members.
Helps ensure decisions made about their care are based on their expressed wishes.
Family members have the same plan as Aged Care Providers and Doctors.
All chosen contacts have the same version of the plan even if it is changed.
Provides a QR code that can be scanned in an emergency.

How do you open a discussion
about end-of-life care?

You’re convinced it would be a good idea for your loved one to have an advance care plan in place – how do you broach the topic with them?

To help you get started, we’ve written an article on the subject.

We hope this helps you Start The Conversation

Create your Advance Care Plan

Our easy secure questionnaire can take as little as 10 minutes to complete, or as long as you and loved ones need.

Are your family all on the same page?

Your family needs an Advance Care Plan.

What is an Advance Care Plan?

It’s more than that though.

How does Touchstone Life Care help manage Advance Care Planning for families?

How do you open a discussion
about end-of-life care?

Create your Advance Care Plan

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Are your family all on the same page?

Your family needs an Advance Care Plan.

What is an Advance Care Plan?

It’s more than that though.

How does Touchstone Life Care help manage Advance Care Planning for families?

How do you open a discussion about end-of-life care?

Create your Advance Care Plan

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