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Have a Voice in YOUR Medical Care

PREPARE for YOUR Care is a step-by-step program with video stories to help you:

  • Get the medical care that is right for you

  • Talk with your medical providers, family, and friends

  • Fill out an advance directive form to put your wishes in writing

Click on the Steps That Are Right for You

Scroll down to see the 5 steps. Learn helpful information in as little as 10 minutes.

How To Use This Program and About Medical Planning

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Step 1

Choose a medical decision maker

Step 2

Decide What Matters Most in Life

Step 3

Choose Flexibility for Your Decision Makers

Step 4

Tell Others About Your Wishes

Step 5

Ask Your Medical Care Team Questions

Easy-To-Read Advance Directives

Free and legal in all US states

All Step Movies

The 5 steps in movie format

Program Guide

Get a one-page summary of the 5 Steps

PREPARE Questions

See all PREPARE Questions and Your Answers

What People Are Saying

After seeing examples on the website, deciding on my own wishes is a lot easier for me now.

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Patient, San Francisco General Hospital

These resources [through the PREPARE for THEIR Care program] are a lifesaver, no matter what stage of medical planning you are in.

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Caregiver

PREPARE is the gold standard of advance care planning.

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Susan Edgman-Levitan, Executive Director of Primary Care Innovations, Massachusetts General Hospital

PREPARE is my #1 source for patient-centered online materials to help individuals with serious illness better communicate with their families and healthcare providers.

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Dr. Nathan Goldstein, Palliative Care Physician and Chair of the Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine

PREPARE breaks advance care planning down into doable actions, instead of walking into a fog of what it is all about.

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Patient, San Francisco General Hospital

I can see my 85-year-old mother using this program [PREPARE for YOUR Care] on her own.

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Caregiver

Patients come to their visits prepared, making advance care planning easier and more efficient.

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Primary Care Clinician, safety net setting

PREPARE is an outstanding resource for patients, families, and practitioners.

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Rebecca Kirch, Executive Vice President of Policy and Programs, National Patient Advocate Foundation

Using the PREPARE for YOUR Care questions as prompts for discussion helps patients tell me about their goals and values. I rely on PREPARE documents knowing they are reviewed yearly to remain in compliance with state laws.

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Dr. Daniel Pound, Medical Director, Center for Geriatric Care, University of California, San Francisco

Help keep PREPARE free to the public!

When you give to the UCSF PREPARE program, you empower people to have a voice in their medical care, ease decision-making burden on caregivers, and promote health equity.

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