Planning and Making Health Care Decisions
How to identify your Health Priorities
Planning and making decisions about your health care is a collaboration between you, your care partners, and your health care team. Managing your health may be particularly difficult if you have multiple chronic conditions. Identify what matters most first, then share this with your team to focus your care.
The MyHealthPriorities website will help you plan and make decisions by walking through these five steps:
- Identify What Matters Most to You
- Set Your Health Goal
- Review Your Health Symptoms and Problems
- Review Your Health Care Tasks and Medications
- Choose The One Thing to Focus On
You can work on this on your own or have a family member or friend help.
Advance Care Planning Handout and Questionnaire
This two-page handout has information on advance care planning and Advance Directives and includes a questionnaire to help you and your caregivers decide what matters most to you.
Podcast on Setting Health Care Goals When You're Seriously Ill
This podcast explains how to make sure you get the health care that’s right for you when you are dealing with a serious health problem.
How to make sure you get the health care that’s right for you when you are dealing with a serious health problem.
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