COVID-19 has heightened the importance of advance care planning. Having conversations in advance about your preferences and wishes for your medical care brings your voice into these decisions and 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.

Advance Care Planning Resources for Patients and the Public

• Advance Directives: 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

National Healthcare Decisions Day Resources (April 16)