Learn more about advance care planning
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What is advance care planning?
Learn about planning for your future health care.
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Being a substitute decision maker
Understand what it means to make decisions about health care for another person.
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Advance care planning and the law
Learn about legally binding documents and what capacity means.
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Advance care planning in your language
Find advance care planning support information in your language.
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Advance care planning for people who can’t make their own decisions
Learn what happens if someone has not planned ahead and doesn’t have capacity.
Order a free starter pack
Download or order your free advance care planning starter pack.
Real life stories
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Facing the unexpected
Julie's family lived through tumultuous life events and experienced firsthand the certainty and comfort planning ahead can provide.
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Making decisions for someone else
Helen has always looked after her health. But for the past three years she has suffered from dementia, and her cognition has rapidly declined.
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Respecting your values
A story about how one man chose, and then changed, his substitute decisions-makers, to ensure that his values would be represented when needed.