Carpe Diem – Parati Postera – End of Life Plan
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Ageing Better’s report, ‘Planning and preparing for later life’, summarises the available evidence on what enables people to plan for their later lives and what factors can present barriers to planning.
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What does all this Latin mean?  

Who said it?

Carpe diem, (Latin: “pluck the day” or “seize the day”)

This is a phrase used by the Roman poet Horace in an ode to express the idea that one should enjoy life while one can, not to ignore the future, but also not to trust that everything is going to fall into place for you. You should take action for the future today. (From Wikipedia 2019.)

Parati Postera, Latin: “ready for the next” 

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The negative narrative around ageing does not encourage people to think in a constructive way about their future selves.  Our own internal ageism may be a barrier. People don’t want to think about getting older, according to Allyson Whisker. If you’re healthy and able-bodied you might not want to think about being frail or needing care, and you certainly won’t want to think about your own mortality.

At the very end, most of us just want a ‘good’ death. What this means to each of us is different, but the confidence of having a completed Carpe Dien Plan might be just what’s needed at a difficult time.   The Plan comes ready for use on the computer if you are computer confident; but it can also be supplied as a paper document to be completed by hand and without a computer.