You plan for many things in life and your healthcare should be no different. Advance healthcare planning is an important process that allows you to decide upon, and, importantly, to also express, in advance, what your preferences are for your healthcare. Studies have shown that participating in advance in this decision-making increases the quality of life you experience and the quality of care you receive. Notably, advance healthcare planning can and should take place at any time in a person’s life. However, it is most frequently associated with the goal of improving quality at the end of one’s life.

Presenter Mary Broderick Donnelly, DBe (Doctorate in Bioethics), RN, is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at the Loyola University School of Nursing. She is also a healthcare ethics consultant at Loyola University Medical Center and is certified in this role by the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities. In her work as a consultant, she frequently addresses issues concerning the construction, interpretation and implementation of advance directives.

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