ADVANCE CARE PLANNING

Making decisions about your health care needs as well as the choices that you would expect to make if you were not able to are very important reasons for advance care planning. An advance care plan coincides with the medical treatment received. Whether you contract an illness or you are involved in an accident that prevents you from making decisions to treat or not based off the prognosis leaves the decision solely to you and not family that might not share your same views. There are many situations that someone could find themselves in and would need and advance care plan, a directive that tells either the care providers or family members what your wishes are when faced with difficult decisions regarding your medical care. It is possible that you could find yourself in a coma brought on by a disease or an accident. Either way, the decision to continue treatment or not will be left up to your family if there is no advanced directive. If the situation is caused by an accident and you are still young and fairly healthy, you may want everything that could be done to revive you so that you m