Using illness trajectories to inform person centred, advance care planning

The authors are general practitioners from France and Australia, a geriatrician from Catalonia, a social scientist, a patient representative, a palliative medicine specialist and medical educator, and a professor of primary palliative care from the UK.We drew on extensive qualitative research with patients and families and extended the concepts of physical, social, psychological and spiritual dimensions described in 2005 and 2017 as well as proposing a distinctive multimorbidity trajectory.We also reviewed broader patient experience research internationally, and interventions in many countries that provides guidance on palliative care throughout Europe, Australia, and America to inform this educational resource. Information and resources for patients, carers and the general publicUK public information websites about care planning, serious illness, death, dying and bereavement: NHS Inform -thinking and planning ahead (NHS Scotland) Dying Matters (England) Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief (Scotland) Marie Curie -care and support through terminal illness (UK) Macmillan Cancer Support -cancer information and support (UK) Age UK -information and advice (UK) How to live and die well: understand what might happen and plan.This short video is for everyone, explaining illness trajectories.It's for people who are well just now to think ahead.It is also for people who currently live with progressive illness.It's also for family members and carers of those who are ill, and who want to learn what can happen in the future so they can plan ahead