Please find ACP Resources Below

• "Choose your Champion!"© They can speak for you, if you cannot speak for yourself.​ (MPOA)  ​ Care & Prepare advocates for all Adults 18 years & older to “Choose their Champion!” by appointing their MPOA. This allows the person of their choosing to speak for them in case they can't speak for themselves due to accident, illness or injury. 
• Need MPOA in Español? or Living Will Spanish?
• NEW Texas POLST Form: A Portable Medical Order (adapted from the National POLST form) 
• OOH DNR Form (Out of Hospital Do Not Resuscitate) 
• "Promise Me This"© webinar recording ​
• ​Set up your iPhone Medical ID in the Health app
• ​Medical ID on Android phone​​
• Directive to Physicians (Living will)
• ​Texas Statutes, Chapter 166 Advance Directives
• ​Statutory Durable Power of Attorney (SDPOA)
• ​HIPAA Release
• ​ACP For Mental Health Care 
• Caregiver Resources (see section below)
• Health Care Documents
• Articles
• Resources for the Jewish Community
• ​Videos​​
• Sample SDPOA
• ​TexasLawHelp.Org and Wills & Estate Planning Guide

"Why should I even think about this?" TED Talk

Professional Resources:

• ​JAMA article 2022 - The Gift
• AMA Steps Forward  - Stanford Letter Project for 0.5 CME
• JAMA article 2020 "Association of Participation in an End-of-Life Conversation Game With Advance Care Planning Behavior and Perspectives Among African American Individuals​"

​​PRESENTATIONS from June 21st "Let’s Talk!" 
(Conversations about Advance Care Planning)

"Knowing Your Options. Medical Interventions to Comfort Care" by Janet M Lieto, DO, FACOFP

"Advance Care Planning. Why do we need it?  Busting the Myths Associated with Advance Care Planning." by Chaplain David Lowe, MA, MDiv, BCC

"Meaningful Quality of Life Conversations." by Lee Ann Franklin, MDiv, MBA, BCC, CT

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Advance Care Planning Websites

• Living Will
• Baylor Scott & White - Plan B
• Compassion & Choices: The Good-to-Go Toolkit
• The Conversation Project:  Your Conversation Starter Kit
• Five Wishes
• My Directives: An electronic on-line approach to Advance Care Planning
• North Texas Respecting Choices:  Planning Guide
• Prepare for Your Care
• TexasHealth.org Advance Care Planning

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Organizations

• Aging and Disability Resource Center of Tarrant County: ADRC
• Alzheimer’s Association - Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregiver Center.
• Conversation Ready NTX
• TAGS:  Tarrant Area Gerontological Society
• United Way of Tarrant County: Area Agency on Aging of Tarrant County​

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Caregiver Resources

• AgingCare.com: (Caregiver support newsletter offering tips, advice)
• A Place for Mom: (Assisted Living Placement Resource)
• Caregiver Action Network
• Caring.com (additional caregiver resources by topic)
• DADS: Department of Aging and Disability Services
• Family Caregiver Alliance: National Center on Caregiving (caregiving at home
• Family Caregivers Online: Education and Resources for Caregivers

 

Health Care Documents

• Directive to Physicians (Living will)
• Medical Power of Attorney
• Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment (MOST)
• Advance Directive for Dementia
• Texas PREPARE Advance Directive

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Articles

• Caregiving is Hard Enough.  Isolation Can Make It Unbearable
• Lessons on Living from My 106-Year-Old Aunt Doris
  
• Dozens of Clergy hope to get people Talking about Death
• Pitfalls for Proxies
• What you should know about elder facilities and end-of-life care
• Getting Grief Right
• One Day Your Mind May Fade. At Least You’ll Have a Plan
• The Best Possible Day: Atul Gawande
• The Crisis Facing America’s Working Daughters

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Resources for the Jewish Community

• Sage Voices:
  • http://www.jtsa.edu/sage-voices:    A diverse group of rabbis and religious leaders speak about end of life issues and how they integrate Jewish tradition into their own teaching and care for others. 
• A Time to Talk:
  • workbook, located here.
  • ​resource guide, here.​
• ​A Time to Act:
  • ​resource guide about the documents, here.

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Videos

• CBS Sunday Morning:  Documenting a “Good Death”
• Dying with Dignity: Respecting Choices with End of Life Care
• Facing Death: Frontline PBS

Caregiver Resource Podcasts: