Advance Care Planning in Healthcare
Advance care planning is an important service that helps healthcare providers reach and serve people at all stages of health - ideally before a health crisis. Five Wishes can help your organization ensure high-value, high-quality care through meaningful and effective advance care planning conversations. The Five Wishes Program for Healthcare includes all the components necessary for success.
Training
Five Wishes Online Training courses focus on developing communication skills and framing conversations around key domains that address what matters most to people - empowering clinicians to have advance care planning discussions that add quality and value. Courses are affordable, self-paced, and carry continuing education credit.
Advance Directive Documents
The Five Wishes Advance Directive Document is widely-known for being easy to follow, understand, and complete. An excellent patient education tool, it provides a conversation framework that covers medical, emotional, spiritual, and communication wishes. Clear, user-friendly wording is accessible across reading levels and in 30 different languages and braille. Available in booklet, online, and virtual formats, with solutions for electronic storage and retrieval.
Conversation tools for families with children or teens include My Wishes and Voicing My Choices, designed to address the unique concerns and expressive preferences of younger patients.
Conversation Guides
The Five Wishes Conversation Guide for Individuals and Families educates patients and families about advance care planning, and gives step-by-step guidance on completing the Five Wishes advance directive document. Includes ideas for talking with their doctor, FAQs, and suggested words and phrases for starting conversations with loved ones.
The Five Wishes Conversation Guide for Clinicians guides providers through starting, navigating, and documenting advance care planning conversations. An easy-to-use booklet, it’s perfect as a training resource and a just-in-time tool to keep in clinical settings.
The Five Wishes Conversation Guide for Communities helps you plan, promote, and present successful community outreach events around advance care planning with Five Wishes.
Community Outreach and Education Tools
Five Wishes resources can help you raise awareness of your services, while encouraging healthcare decisions and family communication before a serious illness.
- Custom Five Wishes documents are ideas for outreach and marketing. Branded with your organization’s imaging and message, they help you increase awareness of your program, and communicate your commitment to person-centered care.
- The Five Wishes Conversation Guide for Communities outlines practical suggestions and guidance for planning and implementing successful outreach initiatives around the topic of advance care planning.
- The Five Wishes Physician Toolkit equips physician practices to offer compassionate and effective advance care planning conversations, with no need to develop additional content. This complete resource is useful for physician practices, and as an outreach tool with physician partners that refer to your program.
Healthcare Resources
We have created several free resources to help you start, strengthen, and improve your advance care planning programs and services.
- Five Wishes Webinars – A variety of topical webinars addressing important issues and best practices
- Five Wishes Video – Great for staff training for healthcare providers, family gatherings, community group meetings and employee workshops, this 18 minute video helps you complete your Five Wishes document and answers commonly asked questions.
- Increasing Value and Support for your Advance Care Planning Program (PDF) – Learn how to gain leadership support and advocate for resources.
- Advance Care Planning checkup for healthcare systems (PDF) – Outlines the most important components of successful advance care planning programs.
- Taking Advance Care Planning System-Wide (PDF) – Tips for expanding programs across a large system.
- Resilience Practices for Everyone – Tips and practices to help you and your staff.