#88 Getting Your House in Order: Thinking about the things you do want with Clare Fuller & Dani Ayre
08.04.24
#88 Getting Your House in Order: Thinking about the things you do want with Clare Fuller & Dani Ayre
In the second episode we continue to explore the model of Getting Your House in Order, describing it as a how to guide for Advance care Planning. We reflect on the foundations, What Matters Most to a person, and move on to explore thinking about the things you do want and how this can be documented in an Advance Statement of Wishes and Preferences.
Key messages from our discussion
An Advance Statement of Wishes and Preferences is a way of documenting your wishes and preferences, it is not legally binding and can be updated at any time.
An Advance Statement of Wishes and Preferences helps underpin why you make the decisions that you make and can help people who may need to support you make a decision or make a decision for you in the future
It is never too soon to write your Advance Statement of Wishes and Preferences
An Advance Statement of Wishes and Preferences is not legally binding and can be updated as your health condition changes. It doesn’t need to be signed.
Find out what is available in your area to document an Advance Statement of Wishes and Preferences
Resource
Access the My Future Care Handbook
Hear the podcast How Joy Lists can help Advance Care Planning with Andrew Saunderson
Access the NHSE Advance statement about your care wishes
Bio:
Dani is a specialist Palliative Care nurse and Educator currently working at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. She has over 15 years’ experience in Palliative and End-of-Life Care (PEoLC). She previously worked in Gibraltar for over 8 years, implementing and leading a Hospice Outreach Service for the community of Gibraltar. She has also worked in the community in Palliative care and Long Term conditions and briefly in the acute sector.
Dani has furthered her knowledge throughout her career by achieving a Distinction in her PG Certificate at Masters level in Palliative Medicine and completed 2 further Masters modules in leadership and education in Palliative care. She is passionate about raising awareness and educating on Palliative care and the importance of Advance care Planning not only to Health care professionals and the general public.
Find out more about my Bespoke Consultancy
If you’d like to find out more about my work contact me.
What one thing will you do?
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Thanks to all my guests for working with me to share their knowledge, experience and stories about Advance Care Planning. I hope you enjoyed listening and have insights to take away; I love hearing your reflections on the series and look forward to reviews on Spotify where you can also subscribe to the series.
Clare
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