Planning ahead

Wills can be lodged with the probate service, to avoid the problem of not being able to find the will. This has the added advantage that nobody can interfere with the will.

Advanced care planning is very important to me. To know that the burden of taking care of my future decisions is not put on my family and next of kin is a big relief. (Listen to Anne [...]

I’ve chosen the nursing home or the care home I would like to go to. It’s quite near where I live and all the staff there speak Welsh, and it will be the same if the managers change. I chose a [...]

I didn’t want to do [the planning] but now I’m pleased I did it, because it means everything’s in place for my future care. And when the worst happens and I pop off, it’ll make things much easier [...]

I have an advance directive in place, it’s easy to do and guarantees your wishes up to and including death. Everybody in my support network is aware of my wishes, including type of funeral, [...]

Talk about your wishes, where you would like to die. Do you want to have heroic measures, staying alive at all costs? Talking about dying need not be sad. Yes, we had tears, but lots of laughter [...]

Get your Lasting Power of Attorney, will, pensions, insurances etc in order and keep them all in one place.

Don’t activate your Power Of Attorney too soon, it will stop you accessing your own money.

I have chosen my own care home. That’s one decision that has been taken off my family! No guilt about homes now or that’s the plan. I’ve got somewhere that I can get used to, get to know the [...]

I have set up the legal documents of Lasting Power Of Attorney with my daughters, but I still have control. Once I no longer feel comfortable, the system is all set up ready for them. The worst [...]