For when the person lacks capacity to undertake advance care planning

This guide covers five areas that relate to making medical treatment decisions for a person who lacks medical decision making capacity to consent to their own treatment or to refuse that treatment:

1. Medical decision-making framework
2. The role of the medical treatment decision maker
3. Using advance care directives
4. The form, ‘What I understand to be the person’s preferences and values’
5. Medical treatment plans

The form, ‘What I understand to be the person’s preferences and values’, is available to download from the Northern Health website.