Honoring Choices North Dakota is a collaborative group of statewide community partners who have a shared vision of creating a culture across North Dakota where continuous (on-going) advance care planning is the standard of care and every individual’s informed preferences for care are documented and upheld.
Making Preparations in Case Life Changes
The purpose of this presentation is to increase knowledge about the importance of having discussions about values, preferences and goals to improve quality of life while journeying through serious health conditions.
Advance Care Planning Overview
Having an Advance Care Plan for health care is important. Like all planning it involves thinking ahead. Advance care planning involves thinking about what you would do if you became so ill that you could no longer communicate with your loved ones or health care providers. You may be in good health right now, or you may have a chronic or serious health issue. But all of us need to think about what we would want if we were suddenly injured or suffered a tragic illness and were unable to hear or speak with others. WHO would talk with the doctor and nurses to make decisions for you? WHAT would they decide?
Advanced Care Planning for Young Adults
Having an Advance Care Plan for health care is important. Like all planning it involves thinking ahead. Advance care planning involves thinking about what you would do if you became so ill that you could no longer communicate with your loved ones or health care providers. You may be in good health right now, or you may have a chronic or serious health issue. But all of us need to think about what we would want if we were suddenly injured or suffered a tragic illness and were unable to hear or speak with others. WHO would talk with the doctor and nurses to make decisions for you? WHAT would they decide?
Making Medical Decisions for Someone Else: A North Dakota Handbook
The American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging in collaboration with North Dakota Department of Human Services
Who will speak for you if you can’t speak for yourself? Advance Health Care Planning Resource Guide for North Dakotans
Most of us know we should talk to a variety of people about our wishes for care when we can’t speak for ourselves. It’s just that, often, we don’t.
Yet, if we can document and discuss in advance our wishes, a conversation that once seemed scary can actually become comforting.
It really is OK to talk about dying. It has to be. Use this guide to help you start.
http://www.ndmed.org/image/cache/ND_Advance_Health_Care_Planning_Resource_Guide_10-07-Final.pdf
Making Health Care Decisions in North Dakota: A Summary of North Dakota Law Regarding Health Care Directives
Published by: North Dakota Department of Human Services Aging Services Division (last revised 2012)
https://www.nd.gov/dhs/info/pubs/docs/aging/aging-healthcare-directives-guide.pdf