Conversations About Advance Care Planning

In this episode I talk with Dr Patricial Cantley, Consultant Geriatrician, about frailty, triggers for Advance Care Planning in frailty and Dr Cantley describes the famous Paper Boat story. Dr Cantley shares her personal experiences of Advance Care Planning with family members, too and we reflect on how we can plan ahead as part of everyday life.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

• David reflects on the professional interest shown in Advance Care Planning and End of life Care when we presented at the 2022 Diabetes Professional Care Conference, and acknowledges these are subjects shied away from.
• Advance Care Planning should be about every patient that we see
• A person living with diabetes has a higher risk of dementia, renal impairment and infections which can impact quality of life and could be considered in Advance Care Planning
• Knowing what complications can come down the road helps us to focus on the here and now and make sure when that arrives we are prepared for it
• Advance Care Planning is part of the role of clinicians working to support patients with Long Term Conditions.
• David describes conversations as Welcome Conversations rather than Difficult Conversations
• David describes the importance of interpreting statistics or data into something that is meaningful to patients.
• A Frailty Assessment (available for every patient over the age of 70) is an ideal opportunity to begin Advance Care Planning conversations
• David discusses the optimisation of Diabetes management aligned to goals of care, stressing this isn't withdrawing care but is about avoiding medication complications.
• David shares how he has started his own Advance Care Planning or planning for the future and that since our first meeting he has his Lasting Power of Attorney in Place.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

We talk about the history of the podcast and which episode had the greatest impact on Martin and why. Martin shares the actions he has taken as a direct result of listening to the episodes and some very personal reflections on how it has changed his views on talking about death and the importance of planning ahead. Martin uses the term Speaking, Listening and Planning (and Talking, Listening and Planning!), a phrase which perfectly summarises Conversations About Advance Care PLanning.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

In this very personal episode I talk with Professor Steve Gentleman, director of the Parkinson's Brain Bank, and Dr George Gverich - Tissue Bank Manager the tissue bank manager. We talk about the unique Parkinson's Brain Bank work and also hear from my family members impacted by Parkinson's Disease.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

In this episode we explore Advance Care Planning, or Anticipatory Care Planning as it's called in Scotland and discuss the challenges of ACP conversations in a Community setting as well as the steps to a successful ACP conversation.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

In this episode I talk with EoL Doula Aly Dickinson. I learn more about the role of an EoL Doula and explore how they can help people and organisations in Advance Care Planning. Our conversation highlights the components of Advance Care Planning, and Aly's approach shows how to create a practical plan from your initial thoughts.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

Have you ever wondered just how to start an Advance Care Planning conversation? In this episode I talk with Andrew Saunderson about how Joy Lists can be an effective way to elicit values on which to base Advance Care Planning decisions.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

Organ Donation: hope and transition after an unexpected death with Vicki Caldwell, mother of organ donor Fi. This very special episode explores a mother's lived experience of traumatic and unexpected death of losing a child, saying yes to organ donation and the transition to finding hope and a new way of living. The podcast is released to coincide with the second anniversary of Max and Keira's Law (on 20.5.2022), which brought the change to an opt out system for organ donation.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

In this episode I talk with Karine Diedrich about Advance Care Planning in Canada. We discuss how the Advance Care Planning Canada movement evolved and how to run a national Advance Care Planning Day. There are links to the fabulous resource in the show notes, many of which are transferable to the UK.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.

In this episode I talk with Karen about the many innovative and creative ways that memories can be kept. This episode will be of interest to those working in a specialist hospice environment but also shows how some memory making can be used in a generalist environment too.

If you are a team looking to provide better end of life care, or set up a one off or complete education programme in end of life care head to www.speakformelpa.co.uk where I provide details on how I can help you. You will also find information about my Lasting Power of Attorney consultancy and the talks I offer for organisations.