Person-Centered Approaches for Healthcare Decision Making is a practical program about supporting people to make healthcare decisions and practice ways to start conversations about future care planning and care at end of life. 

Person-Centered Approaches for Healthcare Decision Making  will help organization leaders, care coordinators, planners, and facilitators to learn about supporting people to make healthcare decisions and practice ways to start conversations about future care planning and care at end of life. When we normalize conversations about future wishes, as well as care and support needs, we become better advocates and we live knowing we have taken measures to honor another person’s wishes when they are unable to make decisions for themselves.

How Person-Centered Approaches for Healthcare Decision Making will help people thrive:

When we normalize conversations about future wishes, as well as care and support needs, we become better advocates and we live knowing we have taken measures to honor another person’s wishes when they are unable to make decisions for themselves.

These practices will change how you care for yourself and bring compassion to your work-life.

Person-Centered Approaches for Healthcare Decision Making Training Program

During this program participants will:

  • Apply skill practices to develop an advance directive with a partner
  • Practice advance care planning conversations using scenarios involving people with disabilities

How HSA can deliver Person-Centered Approaches for Healthcare Decision Making training program:

Five practical, interactive 3-hour sessions will cover decision-making standards and opportunities, including:
    • Competency and capacity
    • Urgency and significance
    • Key healthcare decisions
    • Essential elements of the facilitator role
    • The role of culture in advance care planning and care at end of life
    • Language and terminology of advance care planning and care at end of life
    • The roles, responsibilities, and competencies of a conversation and planning facilitator
    • The legal requirements and value-based elements of an advance care plan
    • Using person-centered approaches to support people throughout the advance care planning process