Care Planning is a process that involves thinking about and documenting your wishes for future health care treatment. It is important to have conversations with your close family, friends, and health care provider(s) so that they know the health care treatment you would agree to, or refuse, if you become incapable of expressing your own decisions. When you write down your wishes and instructions for future health care, you are making an Advance Care Plan. An Advance Care Plan is a written summary of a capable adults wishes or instructions to guide a substitute decision maker if that person is asked by a physician or other health care provider to make a health care treatment decision on behalf of the adult. Your Advance Care Plan can also include: A Representation Agreement where you write your instructions and name someone to make your health and personal care decisions if you become incapable. An Advance Directive with your instructions for health care that are given to your health care provider, which they must follow directly when it speaks to the care you need at the time if you become incapable. An Enduring Power of Attorney where you appoint someone to make decisions about your financial affairs, business and property.
In British Columbia, the government has created an Advance Care Planning Guide called My Voice: Expressing My Wishes for Future Health Care Treatment. This guide can be used to learn about advance care planning and also to make your own advance care plan that will serve as your voice in the future. The guide is available in multiple languages .
The postpartum period is a significant time for the mother, baby, partner, and family. There are physiological adjustments for both mother and baby, and significant social and emotional adjustments for the entire family . However, it is important to note that the term “Care Planning 83 26” does not appear to be related to postpartum care.