Video Transcript
In This Video You Will Learn:
How To Ask Other People About Their Medical Wishes and Medical Planning
And, How To Tell Them About a Program Called PREPARE for YOUR Care
To Learn More About Medical Planning
Click on How to Use this program and about medical planning.
Here you can learn more about medical planning and about advance directive forms.
Ask Your Family and Friends About Their Prior Medical Planning.
You can ask them about:
• Their medical decision maker(s)
• Their medical wishes
• And, any prior advance directive forms
Asking may give you all the information you need.
Words To Ask About Medical Decision Makers
“Have you chosen someone who could help make medical decisions in case of an emergency?
Or, in case you were not able speak for yourself?”
If yes: “Who did you choose? What have you talked about with this person?”
Words To Ask About Advance Directives
“Have you ever written your medical wishes down in an advance directive form?”
If yes: “What did you write down? Where do you keep this form? Who have you shared it with?”
Words To Ask About Any Changes
“Do you still want this person to make medical decisions for you in case of an emergency?”
“Do you still agree with the medical wishes on your advance directive?”
If You Have Done Your Own Medical Planning, Talking About It Can Help Too.
Words you can say:
“I have done my own medical planning, and I would like to share my medical wishes with you.”
“I would also like to learn what is important to you. Can we talk about this?”
Next, we will go over How To Tell People About Another Program Called PREPARE for YOUR Care.
This program will help your family and friends do their OWN medical planning.
PREPARE for THEIR care, the program you are watching now, is actually one of several programs that are part of the LARGER, overarching PREPARE program.
When on the main PREPARE homepage, there is another resource called PREPARE for YOUR Care , that can also be used to help your family and friends do their OWN medical planning and make helping them MUCH easier for you.
Clicking on PREPARE for YOUR Care will take you to the PREPARE for YOUR Care homepage.
PREPARE for YOUR Care is a step-by-step program with video stories that will walk your family and friends through their own medical planning.
To start the program your family and friends can click this blue button that says “Click here to start PREPARE”.
Or, they can click on the PREPARE 5 steps in the menu and go to the steps that are right for them.
Such as, Step 1 “Choose a medical decision maker” or Step 2, “decide what matters most in life” or Step 5, “Ask doctors the right questions”.
You Do Not Have To Be An Expert to Help Your Family and Friends.
PREPARE for YOUR Care provides all the information your family and friends need for medical planning.
This way, you do not have to guess what to say.
PREPARE for YOUR Care will say it for you.
How To View PREPARE for YOUR Care
Your family and friends can go through the program on their own.
Or, you can go through it together in person, over the phone, on a video call, or with the family as a group.
Words To Tell Your Family and Friends About PREPARE for YOUR Care
“I found this free program called PREPARE for YOUR Care that we could do together to help with medical planning.”
“It is easy to use, will walk us through step-by-step, and has these helpful video stories.”
“Can we look at this together?”
This Next Video Will Show You How To Tell Other People About PREPARE for YOUR Care.
This is one example.
Your situation may be different.
To learn more about PREPARE programs to help your family and friends with their OWN medical planning, on the Prepare for THEIR Care homepage, go to the section called “How to Use This Program and About Medical Planning” and watch the video called “How to Use This Program”.
You May Also Learn:
That you are not the medical decision maker, when you thought you might be.
And, that being someone’s medical decision maker may not be right for you.
In This Video You Learned:
How To Ask Other People About Their Medical Wishes and Medical Planning
And, How To Tell Them About a Program Called PREPARE for YOUR Care
