Advance Care Planning Resources for Patients and the Public
Having conversations in advance about your preferences and wishes for your medical care brings your voice into these decisions. It also brings comfort and support to the person you designate as your health care decision maker in the event you cannot express your wishes on your own.
- Sharing Your Health Care Wishes – This CHA brochure can be used to understand and prepare an advance directive.
- Five Wishes – An easy-to-use legal advance directive document that can be used to document health care wishes and a health care proxy.
- The Conversation Project's Starter Kits can help individuals gather their thoughts and then have the conversation with loved ones. It is available in several languages and can be co-branded.
- The Conversation Project's Guide for Faith Communities