Resources

Advance Care Planning Information for Patients and Families

Click Here for Advance Directive Forms to Download in English, Traditional Chinese (繁体中文), Russian (Pусский), and Spanish (Español)

Click Here to Register for What Matters Most? Advance Care Planning Workshops

General Resources

• Advance Care Planning Fact Sheet for Consumers
  Advance HealthCare Directive Fact Sheet prepared by the UCSF MERI Center and the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California
• PREPARE for Your Care
  "PREPARE is a step-by-step program with video stories to help you: Have a voice in YOUR medical care Talk with your doctors Give your family and friends peace of mind Fill out an advance directive form to put your wishes in writing."
• Five Wishes
  Five Wishes has changed the way we talk about advance care planning by ensuring that it is not just an end of life planning tool, but the beginning of an important family conversation. Preserving dignity in healthcare and joy in practice through meaningful conversations
• Stanford Letter Project
  These letter templates are specifically designed to help you voice the key information needed to help you prepare for the future. Use the Stanford Letter Project tools today to write to your doctor, your friends, and your family. It is free, easy, and extremely important.
• East Bay Conversation Project
  The East Bay Conversation Project is a community-wide coalition dedicated to promoting understanding and engagement in "The Conversation" about advance care planning to ensure individuals' health care treatment preferences are known, documented, and honored. The project provides resources to engage in advance care planning and is continually interested in recruiting organizations and individuals to champion the effort.
• Notary Services
  Notary services in and around the UCSF San Francisco Campuses
• Advance Care Planning Resources (CCCC)
  Advance care Planning Resources from the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California
• California POLST website
  Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) is a form that gives seriously-ill patients more control over their end-of-life care, including medical treatment, extraordinary measures (such as a ventilator or feeding tube) and CPR. Printed on bright pink paper, and signed by both a patient and physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant, POLST can prevent unwanted or ineffective treatments, reduce patient and family suffering, and ensure that a patient's wishes are honored.
• UCSF Willed Body Program
  The Willed Body Program is one of many UCSF programs that is committed to excellence in research and education. The program accepts human body donations for anatomical studies essential to teaching and research at UCSF and its associates.

Advance Care Planning Aids

• Go Wish Cards
  Go Wish gives you an easy, even entertaining way to talk about what is most important to you. The cards help you find words to talk about what is important if you were to be living a life that may be shortened by serious illness. Playing the game with your relatives or best friends can help you learn how you can best comfort your loved ones when they need you most
• Heart to Heart Cards
  Heart to Heart cards ais a bilingual Chinese/English activity designed to to make it easier for a family member, a caregiver, or a health provider to understand what a loved one wants done when life is ending.
• What Matters Most Slide Deck
  Slide deck in PDF format from the What Matters Most? Online Advance Directive Workshop
• What Matters Most? Handout
  Handout from the What Matters Most? workshop

Attend a Workshop

• What Matters Most? A free Advance Care Planning workshop
  Hosted by the UCSF MERI Center, this is a two part workshop to learn about the Advance Directive Form, what questions to ask yourself and your family, things to consider about your wishes, and how to complete the form.

End of Life Options Act

• FAQ: End of Life Option Act at UCSF
  Information about California's End of Life Option Act, as well as some special rules for UCSF patients.
• California End of Life Options Act (CA Department of Public Health)
  The State of California End of Life Options Act website
• California End of Life Options act (Death with Dignity)
  Death with Dignity's website with information and resources for End of Life Options act

Videos

• Advanced Care Planning: What Matters Most?
  "Video presented by Redwing Keyssar, RN, Author, Director of Patient and Caregiver Education on Advance Care Planning at the UCSF MERI Center for Education in Palliative Care"
• AARP Family Caregiving Series (Collaboration with CACCC)
  Videos to help with advance care planning and end of life decisions
• Advance Care Planning YouTube Playlist
  Redwing Keyssar, RN, Author, Director of Patient & Caregiver Education walks you through the importance of advance care planning and how to complete your Advance Directive for Healthcare.
  
• Redwing's Advance Directive Webinar with NorCal CarciNET
  

  Advanced Directives - Redwing Keyssar, RN, UCSF MERI Center from NorCal CarciNET Community on Vimeo.