Guide called “My Voice: Expressing my wishes for future health care treatment,” available online at
to help you and your family with advanced planning on aging and health care. Decisions made early about your housing, transportation and other areas of care will help you avoid making difficult choices when there may be fewer options.
Planning for Healthy Aging
Making plans and decisions today will help better prepare you for tomorrow. That’s why thinking about your future well-being in areas such as health, housing, or physical activity will give you greater control over your independence, quality of life and dignity as you age.
It’s Never too Late to Plan
Many people wish they had started planning earlier. Some say they waited too long to move out of the family home; others wish they had developed healthy habits and lifestyles earlier. Some wish that they had stayed in touch with old friends; others, that they had saved more money when they were younger. But if you start planning now, you will know that you’ve done your best today to look after yourself tomorrow and that you have some tools to help you adapt to a changing future.
Why Plan?
Being prepared and having plans in place helps you to:
• make the most of later life • maintain health and independence • have greater control over your decisions • have a satisfying and positive retirement • reduce or avoid costs for health care and other services.
How do you envision your future self?
Are there changes you can make now to have the best life later?
“Chance favours the prepared mind” – Louis Pasteur