Care Planning, Future Wishes and Ambulance Markers
St Christopher's: Advance Care Planning
This leaflet explains how to consider your choices and preferences for the future – if you have any other questions, we hope you will talk them over with a member of staff who will be glad to help.
St Christopher's: Advance Care Plan
Advance Care Planning is a process of discussion between an individual and their care provider. Wishes and preferences are documented in an Advance Care Plan booklet which becomes a patient held record. This has been designed to be provided in the hard copy format which you can obtain from St Christopher’s bookshop. Please do not print from the website. Thank you.
St Christopher's: FAQs about Next of Kin and Power of Attorney
When you are referred to our services, one of the questions we will ask you is about your ‘next of kin’. This is a term that most people have come across without knowing exactly what it means. This leaflet aims to explain it.
Website: www.stchristophers.org.uk/frequently-asked-questions-about-next-of-kin-and-power-of-attorney
myCMC - Coordinate My Care: Urgent Care Plan
myCMC is something that we would like all residents to think about using and our PCN team is committed to supporting residents with this. Anyone who would like advice about this is welcome to speak to a GP or to approach the Croydon North East ICN+ Talking Point via our social prescribing link worker, Saera Haque.
Website: www.coordinatemycare.co.uk/mycmc
Welcome to Death Cafe
At a Death Cafe people gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. Our objective is ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives’.
Website: www.deathcafe.com
Annabelles's Challenge: Ambulance Markers
For residents with certain conditions, the placement of “ambulance markers” using Co-Ordinate My Care (CMC) is recommended. For this purpose, when the applicable resident is a child, the CMC record needs to be completed by a GP because myCMC cannot be completed by a parent for his or her child:
St Christopher's: Planning End of Life Care
Talking about death and dying can be difficult, with many families not knowing how to start these difficult conversations.
The Creating Conversations in Croydon project seeks to work with community groups with the aim of helping everyone have a good death by recording their End Of Life Wishes.
The project has specially trained volunteers who seek to encourage local people to feel more comfortable about talking openly about death and dying.
After all we only get one chance to have our dying wishes met, which is why this project is so vital.
Website: www.stchristophers.org.uk/planning-end-of-life-care
St Christopher's: Preparing for a Funeral
A funeral is a significant event. It may not be easy to think about, whether your own or that of a relative; for example how best to commemorate a life, what to include or leave out. However, planning a funeral can be helpful for those who are approaching the end of life and is one way of ensuring that their wishes are respected.
This leaflet aims to help you consider some of the important things involved.
Website: www.stchristophers.org.uk/funerals
St Christopher's: Creating Conversations in Croydon
The Creating Conversations in Croydon project, commissioned by Croydon CCG, seeks to work with community groups with the aim of helping everyone have a good death by recording their End Of Life Wishes.
Sylvan Road GMT ‘Virtual’ Death Cafe Norwood
A Death Cafe is taking place on Dec. 6, 2020 with Victoria Keen
Website: www.deathcafe.com/deathcafe
Care and Support Planning Guide - National Voices
For carers of residents with learning disability, the following resource might be helpful:
Website: www.nationalvoices.org.uk/care-and-support-planning-guide