Advance Directives

Our entry is a 16 minute long teaching film about the values of advance care planning. While most notions of planning for the end-of-life focus on more senior populations, this film looks at such preparations from the perspective of two students who must decide whether they want to complete an advance directive. After a fateful date, their families have struggle with making health care decisions for their injured loved ones. The film shows the two families in contrast, one with the guidance of advance directive documents and one without. Although a fictionalized account, the situation is a composite of many real circumstances and provides useful information about advance directives and end-of-life planning to assist health care professionals in having these conversations with their patients and clients.