Welcome to PREPARE for THEIR Care

In This Video You Will Learn:

How To Use the PREPARE for THEIR Care Program.

And, How Other PREPARE Tools Can Make It Easier To Help Your Family and Friends With 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.

The PREPARE for THEIR Care program can be found on this main PREPARE homepage.

PREPARE for THEIR Care is designed to Help Other People .

People can click here to learn how to Help OTHER PEOPLE with their medical planning and decisions.

Notice, that when you hover over the button you are about to click on, it will be outlined in orange.

The main PREPARE homepage also has other resources, including PREPARE for YOUR Care, which can help your family and friends do their own medical planning.

Later on, in this video, we will come back to show how using PREPARE for YOUR Care can make it MUCH easier to help your family and friends with their OWN medical planning.

Now, let’s get back to learning how to use the PREPARE for THEIR Care program.

If you click on PREPARE for THEIR Care, it will take you to the PREPARE for THEIR Care homepage like this, PREPARE for THEIR Care will support you as you help other people with their medical planning and medical decisions.

You Will See Stories About All Kinds of People and Decisions.

The stories you will see in the videos can help, even if your situation may be different.

It Is OK if These Topics Are New to You.

PREPARE for THEIR Care will walk you through it, step-by-step.

The video stories will also show you what to say.

And, if it makes it easier, you can even watch the videos with your family and friends.

Now, let’s review how to use the program.

On the home page…

You can click on the topic that would be most helpful to you.

Or, you can scroll down to see all PREPARE for their care content.

There are 3 main topics.

The video you are watching now is part of the section called How To Use This Program and About Medical Planning.

The program also includes information about How to Help Other People With Their Medical Planning.

This section can be used when people can still speak for themselves.

And finally, this program has information about How to Make Medical Decisions for Other People.

This section can be used when people cannot, or do not want to, speak for themselves.

You can get to all the information in the program by scrolling up and down on the webpage like this.

Or, you can click on these buttons at the top of the homepage.

For example, if you were to click on How To Help Other People With Their Medical Planning, it will bring you down to that part of the webpage without needing to scroll like this.

You will see that each section has brief videos.

You can watch the videos in order.

Or, you can watch only the videos that fit your needs.

There are even some extra bonus videos you can watch if they are helpful to you.

If you want to go back up to the top of the homepage without scrolling, you can click on this button that says “top”.

You will notice that as you scroll up and down, the top button stays in the same place on the screen so you can always find it.

Let’s click on the top button and go back up to the top of the homepage.

Finally, the homepage also has a Program Guide.

This guide can be used on its own or can be used to follow along with the videos.

To learn more about other resources click on “How to Use this program and about medical planning”.

Here you can learn more about medical planning and about advance directive forms.

You can also click on the “More Information” button.

In the pop-up window click here to see a list of terms used in the program, here to see Frequently asked questions or “F. A. Qs”, here to see other resources for decision makers and caregivers, here to see a brief video about How a special medical service called Palliative Care Can Help

Let’s scroll back up to the top of the homepage.

If you are interested in how to help other people with their medical planning, there are some additional resources that can make this easier for you.

These resources can be found on the main PREPARE homepage.

If you click on this yellow bar at the top of the page that says “click here to go to PREPARE home” this will take you back to the main PREPARE homepage like this.

Earlier in this video we mentioned another resource on the main PREPARE homepage called PREPARE for YOUR Care.

This program helps people have a voice in their medical care and walks them step-by-step through their OWN medical planning.

So, if your family and friends use PREPARE for YOUR care, it will be MUCH easier for them to do their OWN medical planning and also MUCH easier for you to help them with the process.

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.”

PREPARE for YOUR care also provides easy-to-read, legally valid advance directive forms for all U.S. states that your family and friends can download and print for free.

Your family and friends can get to the forms by either clicking on the word “advance directive” in the blue tool bar, or, by scrolling down on the home page here and clicking the button that says “Get the PREPARE Advance Directive”

As your family and friends are going through the PREPARE for YOUR Care program, it will ask them questions about their wishes for medical care.

If people want, answers to these questions can be copied onto the easy-to-read prepare advance directive form.

What is SO great about PREPARE for YOUR Care is that 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.

Viewing 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.

To learn how to tell your family and friends about this resource , on the PREPARE for THEIR Care homepage under the section, how to help other people with their medical planning.

Click on the video called “How to Ask Other People About Their Medical Wishes”.

In this video you learned:

How to use the PREPARE for THEIR Care program.

And, how other PREPARE tools can make it easier for you to help your family and friends with their OWN medical planning.