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April 2024 update from Prepare for Your Care
PREPARE's easy-to-use resources can help with Advance Care Planning activities on NHDD.

They have been shown to decrease health disparities in advance care planning and result in goal aligned care (Rennels, 2023; Sudore, 2018).
For Patients and Caregivers
These are shown in RCTs to decrease health disparities.
PREPARE for YOUR Care
An online, step-by-step program to help people with their own medical planning.
Pamphlets
An outline with suggested words to start conversations.
PREPARE for THEIR Care
An online program to help family and friends support others with medical planning and decisions. See our new Group Movie Event Toolkits!

For Clinicians and Organizations
Simple ACP Scripts
3 simple steps for any type of provider or community staff member to introduce ACP to patients and clients. Learn More >
ACP Toolkits & Movie Event Guides for Community Organizations
More in-depth, step-by-step instructions to introduce ACP and PREPARE. Learn More >
PREPARE Informational PowerPoint Slides
To help describe PREPARE to your clients, staff, patients, leadership, etc. Learn More >
PREPARE Brochure
See how your organization can use and partner with PREPARE. Learn More >
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Rennels, C. F., Barnes, D. E., Volow, A., Shi, Y., Li, B., & Sudore, R. L. (2023).
PREPARE for your care and easy-to-read advance directives increase real-time goal concordant care. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 71(2), 668–670. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.18074

Sudore, R. L., Schillinger, D., Katen, M. T., Shi, Y., Boscardin, W. J., Osua, S., & Barnes, D. E. (2018). Engaging Diverse English- and Spanish-Speaking Older Adults in Advance Care Planning: The PREPARE Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA internal medicine, 178(12), 1616–1625. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.4657
Rebecca Sudore, MD
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