Advance care planning easy read booklets

These booklets help you plan for your future care. They use simple words and pictures to make things easy to understand.

The booklets ask you to think about what matters to you if you get very sick. It is a good idea to read them with someone who can help, like a health professional or carer.

Advance care planning booklets

Deciding not to have treatment if your breathing or heart stops

Information about deciding not to have treatment if you get very sick.

How to tell us your wishes

How to tell your healthcare team and people important to you your wishes for your future care.

Making an advance care plan

How to plan what you want to happen if you get very sick.

Making decisions about your care and treatment

What happens if you get sick and cannot make all your own choices about your care and treatment.

Organ and tissue donation after you die

Information about deciding if parts of your body should go to someone who needs them after you die.

Planning your treatment

How your healthcare team plans your care and treatment if you get sick.

What happens if you are sick and might not get better

Information about your hospital care and treatment if you might not get better.

What to expect when someone is dying

What happens when someone is at the end of their life and how the healthcare team can help.

Where you can be looked after

Where you can be looked after at the end of life.

Last updated: April 2025

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