Good advance planning for health care decisions is, in reality, a continuing conversation--about values, priorities, the meaning of one's life, and quality of life.
There are 10 tools in all, each clearly labeled and user-friendly. The tool kit does not create a formal advance directive for you. Instead, it helps you do the much harder job of discovering, clarifying, and communicating what is important to you in the face of serious illness.
This tool kit can help you begin the conversation, but It is up to you when you actually have it with your loved ones. Certainly, birthdays and holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's are times where family will come together. We get it - There is no perfect time to start a conversation like this but it is a discussion that must be had. You want to create a situation where no one has to guess what you want: The only way to insure that is to tell them, so that they can serve as your voice in those situations involving care at end-of-life where you may not be able to speak for yourself.