Updated Guides: Engage in Conversations from Simple to Serious Illness
Everyone can start a simple planning conversation to make a personal plan to help ensure the care you receive aligns with your current care goals and choices. It's simple to start a conversation using he Honoring Choices MA 5 Things To Talk About Conversation Guide Series just updated with timely sample questions suggested by consumers and care providers.
The Conversation Guides Series includes two sets of guides, one for Consumers and one for Care Providers. The Consumer Guides 1-4 and the Care Provider Guides 1-4 provide topics and sample questions that mirror each other for more effective consumer-clinician planning conversations.
Adults, family members, caregivers, Health Care Agents and Guardians can download the no cost Consumer Conversation Guides Series 1-4 to start a simple conversation with your care providers to stay well, and build on your conversations as your health needs and care choices and preferences change overtime.
Health care providers and community health professionals can download no cost Care Provider Conversations Guides 1-4 to talk with their patients and clients to promote wellness, manage health and chronic illness and live well with serious illness.
Here is the Care Provider Conversation Guide Series:
Guide 1- Start a Simple Conversation To Stay Well
Guide 2- Managing Health Needs and Chronic Illness
Guide 3- Living Well with Serious Illness
Guide 4- Let's Talk About Palliative Care.
Good Tip: Patients and clients appreciate having the Consumer Guides ahead of an appointment to prepare for a conversation with their care provider. Consumers can write in their own questions on each of the guides and to bring to their next appointment.
Here is the Consumer Conversation Guides 1-4. Consumer Conversation Guide 1 is included in the Getting Started Tool Kit, and Guides 1-4 are included in the Next Steps Tool Kit.