The conversation project – Your Conversation Starter Guide-Life
Location USA
Organisation: Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Website: https://theconversationproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ConversationStarterGuide.pdf
Available language(s): English, Spanish, Chinese
Date of development: 2021
Type of tool: Digital
Purpose:
Self-reflection tools
Guidelines (“how to”)
Topic(s)covered: If and how to discuss this topic with your beloved ones
Overview
This booklet is the first of a series of resources dedicated to help individuals having conversations with the important people in their life about your – or their – wishes for care through the end of life.
It suggests questions and prompts to go through:
• What matters to you in life
• How you prefer to approach health care issues, now and when you will approach your end-of-life
• Identifying with whom and in which context you would like to start a conversation
• Suggestions on how to begin the conversation and topics that could be discussed
Reasons for selecting the practice and impact
Starting a conversation about end-of-life care and death is often difficult and somehow embarrassing. It might be useful to be supported in preparing and then starting it.
The tool is very practical, offers step-by-step instructions, forms to fill, itcan be printed or filled-in online and it contains references to other similartools focusing on issues such as nominating a care proxy or preparing aliving will.
Impact:
More than 600,000 people, from all 50 states and 160+ countries, have downloaded the Conversation Starter Guide.
More than 1,800,000 people have visited The Conversation Project website since its 2012 launch.
Contacts and additional information
Transferability
This tool doesn’t make any reference to the specific context of theUSA, therefore it is highly transferable. Moreover, it is very simple as it doesn’t contain reference to specific medical or care treatments /procedures.
The combination of self-reflection questions together with prompt for conversation makes it very practical and useful for anyone intending to prepare him/herself to write own advanced directives.
Contact
conversationproject@IHI.org
https://theconversationproject.org/