Palliative care

Question 1

What are the requirements for advanced care planning

Answer 1

Patient must have capacity to understand and discuss options

Question 2

What are the principles of a good death

Answer 2

Know when death is coming

Understand what to expect

Have dignity and privacy

Have control over pain/symptom control

Have choice about where death will happen

Have access to information and expertise

Have access to emotional and spiritual support

Have access to hospice care

Have control over who is present at the end

Be able to issue advanced directives

Have time to say goodbye

Not have life prolonged unnecessarily