Advanced Care Planning: A Case Study

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DOH (2008) recommends caring for individuals at the end of their lives is a vital role that requires health and social care professionals to be competent inorder to deliver humane care. NICE (2008) proclaims that the role of advanced care planning is to consider with individuals their preferences regarding the type of care they would wish to receive in case they lose capacity or are unable to express a preference in the future. Though Heath (2010) states if advanced care planning has not been carried out issues including end of life decision making could arise in the future therefore it will be late to do advanced care planning due to the advanced dementia. For Mr G advanced care planning was not previously carried out and therefore the difficult

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