Publications:
Capacity, care planning and advance care planning in life limiting illness
A Guide for Health and Social Care Staff
17 May 2011
**updated version of Advance Care Planning: a guide for health and social care staff **
This guide covers
- the importance of assessing a person’s capacity to make particular decisions about their care and treatment and of acting in the best interests of those who are assessed as lacking capacity to make these decisions.
- the differences and relationship between care planning and advance care planning.
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