An Introduction to Living Wills & LPAs for Health & Welfare

Introduction

With greater focus being on personalised end-of-life care, the number of people wanting to document their treatment and care preferences by making an Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment (Living Will) and/or a Lasting Power (‘LPA’) of Attorney for Health and Welfare is increasing.

A Living Will enables a person to say now if there are treatments they do not wish to have in certain situations, in case they are later unable to make that decision themselves.

An LPA for Health and Welfare allows a person to give someone they trust the authority to make decisions on their behalf.

This new virtual classroom seminar will look in detail at how to draft these documents so that they are clinically robust and reflect the wishes of the individual and what matters to them.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive session will cover the following:

• Why people want to plan ahead
• Real experiences of decision making at the end of life and the benefits of documenting care preferences
• How to ensure Advance Decisions are legally binding under the Mental Capacity Act
• Examples of good and bad wording and how to ensure a person’s wish to refuse treatment is communicated in a way that is robust and clinically useful
• How to support people to complete both an Advance Decisions and a Lasting Power of Attorney for Health and Welfare, so that they work well together

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.