Tipi Wills & Planning have developed a comprehensive Advance Care Plan Plus for complete healthcare protection if anything should, or has happened to you leaving you unable to speak for yourself.  It is a personalised, centralised and accessible safe place to store and record critical healthcare and legal documents combined.  It contains your healthcare directions (which includes important information such as diet and religious beliefs) GP, healthcare, attorney and family contact information.  It can record if you wish, where other important private documents and information are stored such as your Will (to avoid it not being found) or who your attorney is and your instructions to them.  Within your attorney instructions you may record passwords, financial account information, insurance policies to keep life moving and loved ones and business colleagues protected .

 

Your Advance Care Plan Plus also provides a Personal Wellbeing Section to support your mental health throughout a care journey.  Store favourite photographs, cards and memories rather like a Smart Scrapbook.  Keeping your spirits up will allow for a better recovery outcome and any care journey.  

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Keep it with you on any care journey whenever you need medical or healthcare support at home, hospital, nursing home, short term or long term care.  Ensure the best care for you by providing the best information for others.

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When is the best time to do your Life Care Plan and ACaPP?  Anytime well ahead of when it is needed.   

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A huge benefit of putting this folder in place is providing clear, legal instructions for family, attorneys and healthcare givers.  This also can save the NHS and LA quite literally millions if they do not need to enter into legal proceedings to make court applications and apply to the Office of the Public Guardian.  Delays in decisions for your treatment is avoided, enormous costs and great stress is taken off your family and attorney.  This is all achieved through the simple journey of starting with an ACaPP which gives you the choice of doing it all yourself or choosing if and when you ask for professional help.  This gives your better control of your costs and time.  Start today and call us.  We can send you your Advance Care Plan Plus to begin your complete healthcare protection.

 

​Only you know you as well as you do.

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It is incredibly common for it to be too late to prepare all this easily or at all.  Suddenly social services and carers are involved, seeking advocates and family to become involved, court permissions, and no attornies and no healthcare directions.  It effectively starts when it is too late.  When hospitalised or going into care, information is recorded onto the computer and invariably this vital information is left blank because it is unknown, even if in place.  All agencies involved in your care want you to have the best care and to have prepared in good time.  This has little to do with how healthy and fit you are and how great your life is.  Anything can happen at any time.

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Use foresight : If you are planning on doing something risky, already have or are diagnosed with illness, going into hospital, accident or injury, this is a good time to undertake your Life Care Plan. It focusses your mind.  If you think this is hard to face now, imagine trying to face it after an accident, onset of serious illness, ill, confused, overwhelmed, when everyone else is trying their best on your behalf.

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An Advance Care Plan Plus :

i)  gives clear personal instructions to your family and any carer or health professional.  You retain control on directing your care, wants and particular needs

ii)  would provide a framework that healthcare givers can comply with in respect to legal obligations regarding your care. 

iii)  take a large burden off family knowing you have given your clear instructions that are in an accessible central place.  (This is an area that can be challenging where a hospital may need to call in legal or mediation services.  Families can fracture sometimes irreperably when medical advice and decisions are to be considered.  It is not an area to be underestimated).

iv)  Provide you with an opportunity to consider the legal documents you might need in place to complete a whole Life Care Plan to include a Living Will, Powers of Attorney, Document of Decisions, up to date Will.

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We provide you with a sectioned folder.  Make as personal as you wish.  Washable binder and tab inserts.  Brightly coloured tabs for easy identification and easy see clear pastic sleeves for documents. 

 

Included is the unique Personal Wellbeing Section. 

Lift spirits and show photos and things of interest for conversation and happy memories with those around you. Include pictures of you and loved ones; your life or work history, family, you as a child or parent or friend or partner; notes of happy memories, all of which help healthcarers and visitors to talk with you about things that are important to you and help if you feel low.  

 

​Include your food preferences, your entertainment likes and dislikes regarding tv and radio for example, your self care such as hair and nails, footcare, product preferences and to avoid and any host of preferences that make you comfortable and happy.  You may keep it short and succinct and/or consider it an ongoing record.  Add things to it as you go along and then keep it with you should you get ill and/or require care/rehabilitation.

 

An ACaPP can also be used as a keepsake for those that love you too if you use it a Smart Scrap Book and have loved ones to help create this section.

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Your ACaPP will store essential documents creating a centralised record.  It is easily available and avoids information and documents not being found.  There are cases such as where a Living Will came to light later buried deep in GP records only to find medical actions were going against patient wishes.  This was a problem for the health carers because unwittingly they were breaking the law and contraveneing patient wishes.  Any family, attorneys and medical carers are bound by it eg so cannot carry out care against your wishes.

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It's flexible  You choose what sections you fill in now or later and/or amend as needed throughout your life and healthcare journey. You can take as much time as you need after completing basic and critical details.  You may take as long as you need to develop a full picture and add personal content.

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Plan now to live your best life whatever happens.

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Rather like a "smart" scrapbook, you can encourage loved ones to participate then keep as a personal project. 

 

Timing can be hard.  An accident or serious illness, whether sudden or anticipated, for short term or long term, can mean it is difficult (or indeed not possible if incapacitated) to put your mind to details, decisions and choices.  Feel reassured that we can guide and support you even if it has become urgent.  Preparing yourself for the future using the three golden rules is the best.  

 

We can support you to address difficult subjects and details and prepare over a time period that suits you.

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We give a sensitive, experienced and strong supporting hand.  An important part of creating an Advance Care Plan Plus is to protect you from feeling dehumanised at a time when you may be feeling vulnerable such as through accident, sudden or progressive illness.  

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