Advance Care Planning Long-Term Care Repository of Resources
This repository was compiled to serve as an information hub for those working in, living at, or interacting with Canadian long-term care homes and engaging in advance care planning conversations.
We hope that this resource will help guide people through the advance care planning process by providing resources relevant to their needs and perspective.
All the resources satisfy the requirements of the below inclusion criteria.
Criteria for Inclusion:
- Resource is open/free and available online
- Resource is written in one of the official languages, and/or languages commonly used in identified community
- Resource is applicable to Advance Care Planning in LTC setting
- Resource is from a Canadian source
- Advance Care Planning – Conversation Starter, BC Centre for Palliative Care
- Advance Care Planning Workbook (Ontario), Hospice Palliative Care Ontario
- Advance Care Planning Conversations a Guide for you and you Substitute Decision Maker, Hospice Palliative Care Ontario
- Advance Care Planning- Goals of Care, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
- Advance Care Planning Resources for Indigenous Peoples, First Nations Health Authority
- Be prepared in the time of COVID-19, BC Centre for Palliative Care
- Coming Full Circle: Planning for Your Care Personal Stories for Health Professionals, Canadian Virtual Hospice
- COVID-19 Information Resources, Advance Care Planning Canada
- COVID-19 Resources, BC Centre for Palliative Care
- CPR Decision Aid Guidebook and Video, Advance Care Planning Canada
- Fraser Health Advance Care Planning Video
- Illness Trajectory Pamphlets (Frailty, Heart Disease, Lung Disease, Kidney Disease, and Dementia), Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-term Care
- Living Well Planning Well, an Advance Care Planning Resource for Accessing Your Rights, Advance Care Planning Canada
- My Voice – Planning in Advance for Health Choices, Saskatchewan Health Authority
- OPCN FAQ: Advance Care Planning, Goals of Care, and Treatment Decisions and Informed Consent
- OPCN Making Decision About Your Care, Hospice Palliative Care Ontario
- Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-term Care Repository of Resources
- The Dementia Journey: A Roadmap for Residents and Their Families, Fraser Health
- Time to Talk: Serious Illness Conversations, Choosing Wisely Canada
- Advance Care Planning Conversations a Guide for you and your Substitute Decision Maker, Hospice Palliative Care Ontario
- Advance Care Planning Workbook (Ontario), Hospice Palliative Care Ontario
- Advance Care Planning- Goals of Care, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
- Advance Care Planning Resources for Indigenous Peoples, First Nations Health Authority
- Be prepared in the time of COVID-19, BC Centre for Palliative Care
- Community of Practice for Pain and Palliative Care: A Success Story, Registered Nurses’ Association Ontario
- COVID-19 Resources, BC Centre for Palliative Care
- COVID-19 Resources, Champlain Hospice Palliative Care Program
- CPR Decision Aid Guidebook and Video, Advance Care Planning Canada
- Fraser Health Advance Care Planning Video
- Frequently Asked Questions: Advance Care Planning, Goals of Care and Treatment Decisions and, Informed Consent, Ontario Palliative Care Network
- Illness Trajectory Pamphlets (Frailty, Heart Disease, Lung Disease, Kidney Disease, and Dementia), Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-term Care
- Living Well Planning Well, an Advance Care Planning Resource for Accessing Your Rights, Advance Care Planning Canada
- Making Decisions About Your Care, Ontario Palliative Care Network
- OPCN FAQ: Advance Care Planning, Goals of Care, and Treatment Decisions & Informed Consent, Hospice Palliative Care Ontario
- OPCN Making Decisions About Your Care, Hospice Palliative Care Ontario
- Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-term Care Repository of Resources
- The Dementia Journey: A Roadmap for Residents and Their Families, Fraser Health
- Time to Talk: Serious Illness Conversations, Choosing Wisely Canada
- Advance Care Planning for People Living with Dementia, BC Centre for Palliative Care
- Advance Care Planning Template, Hospice Palliative Ontario
- Be prepared in the time of COVID-19, BC Centre for Palliative Care
- Community of Practice for Pain and Palliative Care: A Success Story, Registered Nurses’ Association Ontario
- COVID-19 Information Resources, Advance Care Planning Canada
- COVID-19 Resources, Champlain Hospice Palliative Care Program
- CPR Decision Aid Guidebook and Video, Advance Care Planning Canada
- Decision Making in Health Care of Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Surrey Place
- Equity in Palliative Approaches to Care, Equity in Palliative Care
- Essential Conversations: A Guide to Advance Care Planning in Long-Term Care Settings, Advance Care Planning Canada
- Findings from the Waterloo Wellington Virtual Care PDSA, Saint Joseph’s Health Centre Guelph
- Fraser Health Advance Care Planning Resources: Health Care Providers Handbook to Client Brochures, Clinical Forms, & Tools for Practical Application, Fraser Health
- Goals of Care Template, Hospice Palliative Care Ontario
- Living Well Planning Well, an Advance Care Planning Resource for Accessing Your Rights, Advance Care Planning Canada
- Long-Term Care, Assisted Living COVID-19 Resource Toolkit, Fraser Health
- On-Demand Webinars: Apply key communication skills in patient encounters, especially in the time of COVID, Vital Talk
- Person Centered Decision Making Modules, Hospice Palliative Care Ontario
- Resource Guide to Health Care Consent and Advance Care Planning, Hospice Palliative Care Ontario
- Serious Illness Conversation Guide: Substitute Decision Makers A Conversation Tool for Clinicians, Fraser Health
- Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-term Care Repository of Resources
- Taking Ownership: Online Module, Pallium
- Time to Talk: Serious Illness Conversations, Choosing Wisely Canad
- Advance Care Planning for People Living with Dementia, BC Centre for Palliative Care
- A pilot evaluation of the Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-Term Care (SPA-LTC) program
- Community of Practice for Pain and Palliative Care: A Success Story, Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario
- Family Care Conferences in Long-Term Care: Exploring Content and Processes in End-of life communication, Strengthening Palliative Approach in Long-term Care & Canadian Frailty Network
- Findings from the Waterloo Wellington Virtual Care PDSA
- “Now I Don’t Have to Guess”: Using Pamphlets to Encourage Residents and Families/Friends to Engage in Advance Care Planning in Long-Term Care
- Resource Guide to Health Care Consent and Advance Care Planning, Hospice Palliative Care Ontario
- Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-term Care Repository of Resources, SPA-LTC
- Advance Care Planning Toolkit (Conversations starter, Handout, and Guides) B.C. Centre for Palliative Care
- Advance Care Planning- Simplified and Traditional Chinese (Video), Fraser Health
- Are you a Substitute Decision Maker? – Simplified Chinese, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
- Are you a Substitute Decision Maker?- Traditional Chinese, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
- How to Decide on a Substitute Decision Maker- Simplified Chinese, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
- How to Decide on a Substitute Decision Maker- Traditional Chinese, Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
- My Choices for Safe and Inclusive Healthcare: Taking Pride in my Health and Well-being, Canadian Virtual Hospice
- Planning For My Care: For People Who Identify as Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ (Workbook), Canadian Virtual Hospice
- Proud, Prepared and Protected Website
- Two- Spirit and LGBTQ+ Canadian Healthcare Bill of Rights: For Advanced Illness, Frailty and End of Life, Canadian Virtual Hospice
- Advance Care Planning for People Living With Dementia: Environmental Scan, B.C. Centre for Palliative Care
- Communication Challenges and Helpful Strategies for the Person with Dementia, Alzheimer Society of Canada
- My Voice in Action: A Workbook For Advance Care Planning – Easy Read Version, Fraser Health
- My Wishes, My Care Tool Kit, Advance Care Planning Program for Older Adults, People Living With Early Stages of Dementia and Their Family and Friends, B.C. Centre for Palliative Care
- The Dementia Journey: A Roadmap for Resident and Their Families, Fraser Health
If there are any additional resources, you would like to submit for consideration that meet the outlined requirements please send them to [email protected]
The Repository was created in consultation with the Long-term Care Resource Development and Implementation Task Group and the Advance Care Planning National Task Group. Production of this repository has been made possible through a financial contribution from Health Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Health Canada