PREPARE for Your Care

This evidence-based program is easy to understand. It’s meant for healthcare consumers, providers, and organizations.

The program outlines 5 steps for advance care planning:

  1. Choose a medical decision maker.
  2. Decide what matters most in life.
  3. Choose flexibility for your decision maker.
  4. Tell others about your wishes.
  5. Ask doctors the right question.

The program offers a number of free resources on advance care planning. These include the following:

  • Quick start guide
  • Advance directives for all U.S. states in multiple languages
  • COVID-19 resources
  • Pamphlets, tip sheets, and scripts in multiple languages
  • Slides
  • Summary of my wishes form
  • Videos and question guide


#AdvanceCarePlanning

Communication
Topic
Advance Care Planning
Audience
Patients and Health Care Consumers, Families and Caregivers, Health Care Professionals
Setting
Primary Care and Outpatient Practices, Long-Term, Residential, and Home-Based Care
Level
Foundational