Planning Perspectives

We are very excited to announce we will be launching a newly designed website on May 17th! You will still find us here, at the same place: www.planwellguide.com though we did want to let you know the information and plans from the older site will still be accessible...

Do your advance serious illness planning (not traditional advance care planning)! April 16th is National Advance Care planning day. It is a time to promote the idea of thinking ahead and planning head for your future medical care. It involved naming and capacitating...

It is likely you have heard the term ‘comfort measures only’ in the context of medical care and planning. Comfort care can be provided in a hospital, a long-term care home, a hospice, or at home and care focuses on managing symptoms. Comfort care sometimes called a...

The whole goal behind Plan Well Guide is to help people clarify their values, provide information about the differences between ICU care, Medical care and Comfort care, and transparently connect one’s values to medical treatment options when they are seriously ill....

With the advent of the New Year, many people make a point of setting New Year’s resolutions or goals. With the pandemic still raging around us, we would like to suggest that it would be wise to set a goal to visit www.planwellguide.com and complete your serious...

This holiday season may look and feel different from previous years with COVID-19 continuing to permeate people’s lives across the globe. Recent reports state 342,500 cases of COVID-19 in Canada1 and more than a quarter-of-a-million deaths south of the border, the...

The pandemic has caused a great deal of distress and suffering, globally. One of the reasons behind this is due to how vulnerable populations, such as older persons living in institutional settings were treated like prisoners and isolated to their rooms and ‘visitors’...

COVID-19 pandemic has caused tremendous social and economic upheaval. For many of us, it has been a wake-up call alerting us of the need to think and plan ahead for scenarios where either we or our loved ones get real sick. At Plan Well Guide, we want to help you...

Many years ago, my father was diagnosed with prostate cancer by a local urologist in the small town he lives in. He was referred to a urologist in the larger center for consultation regarding surgery to remove the cancer. Working in medicine and having access to his...

COVID-19 has had a devastating effect on older individuals living in long-term care (LTC) settings. The majority of deaths in most countries around the world have been in LTC settings (>80%).[i] This pandemic has highlighted the horrific problems with family...