Patients and Caregivers

You can see definitions for Patient Priorities Care terms here.

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• MyHealthPriorities.org
  This self-directed website guides people (and their caregivers if they desire) through the health priorities identification process. At the end, they will have a template/summary that outlines their Health Priorities (the life and health goals/activities they want their health care to help them with given what they are willing and able to do) and the One Thing that they most want to focus on.
• Conversation Guide for Patients and Caregivers for Identifying their Health Priorities
  This guides the patient (and caregiver) when working with the member of the healthcare team to identify and communicate the patient’s health priorities, which includes their core life values, health outcome goals and healthcare preferences.
• Patient Summary of Health Priorities
  This is for patients to provide clinicians a summary of health priorities and Specific Ask – the “one thing” in their healthcare and treatments that they would like to focus on so that they can do more of a desired activity. Patients are encouraged to brings this summary to all clinician visits.
• Tips for Patients to Communicate with Clinicians
  This document contains tips for patients on how to communicate with clinicians about their health priorities and concerns about their health.