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  • "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. 
  • Living Will /Directive to MD/Surrogate & Family
  • NEW Combo Directive to Physicians (Living will) + HIPAA + MPOA (Choose your Champion)
  • NEW Texas POLST Form: A Portable Medical Order (adapted from the National POLST form) 
  • ​Need an ACP checklist?​​
  • Need MPOA in Español? or Living Will Spanish?
  • Want to know where this is found? ​Texas Statutes, Health & Safety Chapter 166 Advance Directives
  • ​Set up your iPhone Medical ID in the Health app
  • ​Medical ID on Android phone​​
  • "Promise Me This"© webinar recording ​​
  • OOH DNR Form (Out of Hospital Do Not Resuscitate)
  • ​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 - see below
  • ​Videos​​
  • Sample SDPOA
  • ​TexasLawHelp.Org and Wills & Estate Planning Guide
"Prepare for a good end of life" TED Talk

21 Smart Questions to ensure you are ready for a Health Emergency 

My Directives:
 An electronic on-line approach to Advance Care Planning
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Professional Resources:
  • Advance care plans for vulnerable (Abstract)
  • As the Medicare program struggles to control expenditures
  • ​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

Community Resources:
Have Cancer & Need help? Cancer Care Services Help website


Advance Care Planning Websites

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

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​

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

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

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

​​Local Covid Info:                                        
Tarrant County/Coronavirus          
Gov. Greg Abbott                              
If You Are at Higher Risk        
#DefendtheFort                        
Ft. Worth COVID hotline 817-392-8478
Prepare for your Care TX ACP Forms
What if feels like to have COVID
      
COVID Public Resources:
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Care & Prepare utilizes Respecting Choices for evidence-based training materials. Free resources! Great Toolbox                 
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COVID Professional Resources:
Care & Prepare utilizes Respecting Choices for evidence-based training materials. Free resources!  Great Toolbox  What if feels like to have COVID

VitalTalk's COVID ready Q&A w/ public Thoughtful answers
CAPC COVID-19 Response Resources

IHI’s Resources: Mobilizing to Respond to COVID-19
Available now | Virtual Learning Hour 
Watch the first in a series of free weekly Virtual Learning Hours from IHI focused on effective responses to stressed health systems and overwhelmed (and often insufficiently protected) health care professionals. Don Berwick and Derek Feeley share learnings from leaders and improvers across the globe, and listeners offer their own stories.
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IHI Open School Courses 
Available to all for 2 months 
Access our most relevant courses on teamwork, leadership, patient-centered care, and self-care, and earn up to 10 continuing education credits.              


Now that you have your ACP - now what?
"Promise me This."© Part 2 - ACP & Planned Giving Zoom webinar recorded or for audio only of recording

​National & Global Covid Info:
How can I protect myself?
CDC Latest Updates
Johns Hopkins Global Map of Pandemic
Alzheimer’s Association
IRS issued Notice 2020-17
Being Prepared in the Time of COVID-19 :Three Things You Can Do Now
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Oh, that’s interesting:
Survivor of 1918 Flu Speaks
COV-Idiot charged with felony
NY MD treats 699 pts 100% success?!
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COVID Public Resources:

Want to help save hospitals from being overwhelmed? Fill out that medical directive now.

Care & Prepare utilizes Respecting Choices for evidence-based training materials. Free resources! Great Toolbox                 

Any day is a good day to make your medical wishes known to your family. It never hurts to revisit the discussion during a time of major changes. Here are resources to help you have this important conversation today: mydirectives.com. If you prefer to have someone walk you through your decision making follow this link.
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Caregiver Resource Podcasts:



















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