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What Matters to Me: A Workbook for People with Serious Illness is a workbook/guide designed to help those with a serious illness prepare to talk to their healthcare team about what is most important. 

Guides include:

• Start a Conversation
• Choose a Health Care Proxy
• Be a Health Care Proxy
• Talk to my Health Care Team about my End of Life Care
• Talk about the Care I want for my Serious Illness
• Help the person I Care for with Alzheimer’s or Dementia
• Talk with my Child Living with Serious Illness
• Get the Most out of my Next Medical Appointment (for older adults and caregivers)
• Be Prepared in the Time of COVID-19

Developed by Ariadne Labs and The Conversation Project, an initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Available in English, Spanish and Chinese.