VTAD Week 2025:
Start planning today! Vermont Advance Directive Week: April 13-19 | National Health Care Decisions Day: April 16
Learn more
Learn more
Helpful Tools for Decision-Making
Below are tools that you may find helpful in the process of medical decision making:
Helpful Tools
Guide to Choosing Your Health Care Agent
A step-by-step guide to choosing your health care agent/proxy. Created by The Conversation Project and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Read the GuidePatient Values Questionnaire
A list of questions that can help you think about your values as they relate to medical care decisions. You may use the questions to discuss your views with your health care agent and others, or you may write answers to the questions as a help to your agent and health care team.
DownloadMedical Situations & Treatment Worksheet
A worksheet to help you think through possible treatment plans for common medical situations that may arise.
DownloadConversation Starter Kit
A starter kit to help you organize your thoughts and talk to your loved ones about end-of-life care.
DownloadMy Living Voice
An interactive decision aid that can help you with the process of advance care planning.
VisitMaking Medical Decisions for Someone Else
A resource to answer questions that may arise to help guide you in the process of making medical decisions for someone else.
DownloadPREPARE for Your Care
PREPARE for your care is an advance care planning program with video stories to help individuals voice their medical choices, talk with their doctors, and share the information with loved ones.
VisitMedical Decision-Maker Quiz
A tool for you and your health care agent to take to create better understanding about goals.
DownloadHow to Talk to Your Doctor
A toolkit for talking with your doctor and/or health care team to make sure they know your preferences regarding end-of-life care.
DownloadTalking With Your Clinician About the Future
A one-page guide to help you prepare for a conversation with your clinician about what is ahead and how to plan.
VisitPatient's Guide to Difficult Conversations (SpeakSooner)
A workbook to help patients understand and communicate their own questions, concerns and priorities so they can become more effective partners in their own care.
VisitChecklist for Advance Directives
A reminder of things that might be good to check on as you plan and fill out an Advance Directive.
ViewTalking About Your Illness With Loved Ones and Caregivers
A booklet designed to help you talk with your loved ones about your illness and the future.
VisitGo Wish Game
A card game to think and talk about what's important if you or a family member becomes seriously ill.
VisitThinking Ahead Workbook
An advance care planning workbook for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
Visit