Navigating the BC Healthcare System
eBook - ePub

Navigating the BC Healthcare System

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Navigating the BC Healthcare System

About this book

Your Simplified Guide to the BC Healthcare SystemIt has always been important to be an empowered patient or caregiver, but likely never more so than right now. If we are or someone we care about is seriously ill, we have to rely on the healthcare system -- but it is also on life-support and we must know how to do the heavy lifting in our own care.Healthcare in British Columbia is nothing if not complicated. General practitioners, specialists, waiting lists, residential care, and everything in between seem to all exist independently of anything else. Knowing where to turn can feel like something you need a medical degree for, or at least, it can feel like an art. This step-by-step guide for those who suddenly find themselves with serious illness or injury in a medical world that moves too fast and seems to speak another language. Whether you are self-advocating, or advocating for a loved one, and if you are facing confusion or hard healthcare choices in British Columbia, this guide is for you.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. CHAPTER 1: Understanding the Canadian and BC Healthcare System
  6. CHAPTER 2: Empowered Patients and Care Partners
  7. CHAPTER 3: Empowered Communication
  8. CHAPTER 4: Special Considerations for Care Partners and Caregivers
  9. CHAPTER 5: HealthCare Planning Is for Right Now!
  10. CHAPTER 6: Advance Care Planning and Related Documents
  11. CHAPTER 7: Determine Values, Beliefs, and Preferences for Future Care
  12. CHAPTER 8: Understanding Healthcare Benefits and Insurance
  13. CHAPTER 9: Care and Services in the Community (or How to Get a Doctor’s Care)
  14. CHAPTER 10: Home Care
  15. CHAPTER 11: Understand and Navigate Care in Emergency Departments, Hospitals, and at BC Cancer Agency
  16. CHAPTER 12: Assisted Living and Residential Care
  17. CHAPTER 13: Palliative Care and Hospice: In the Community and In-Facility
  18. CHAPTER 14: Choice at the End of Life
  19. CHAPTER 15: Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)
  20. CHAPTER 16: Elder Abuse
  21. CHAPTER 17: How to Make a Complaint about Healthcare in British Columbia
  22. APPENDIX 1: Glossary of Terms Used in Resuscitation, Critical Care, and End of Life
  23. APPENDIX 2: Understanding the Expected Death in the Home (EDitH) Form
  24. APPENDIX 3: No CPR” Form and Medical Alert Bracelet Form
  25. Download Kit
  26. Acknowledgements
  27. Dedication
  28. About the Author
  29. Notice to Readers
  30. Self-Counsel Press thanks you for purchasing this ebook.