"Making Your Wishes Known, Planning Your Medical Future" is an interactive computer-based decision aid for advance care planning that was developed by Dr. Michael Green and Dr. Benjamin Levi.
This program:
1. Educates users about the complex decisions involved in creating a meaningful advance directive for healthcare;
2. Helps users clarify and articulate their values as they apply to future healthcare decisions (in the event that they could not speak for themselves); and
3. Uses a computational algorithm (based on multi-attribute utility theory) to translate an individual's beliefs, priorities and wishes into a completed, personalized advance directive.
Making Your Wishes Known is designed to increase users' appreciation of the nature and implications of choices that must be made for effective advance care planning, as well as the practical steps that must be taken to implement it. This decision aid is currently being evaluated in clinical trials to measure its effectiveness in helping physicians' wishes.
Click on the Links below to view video samples from "Making your Wishes Known: Planning Your Medical Future"
Files may take a minute or two to load.
PC's will need the Windows Media Player software to view video samples.
Mac OS X will need the Silverlight Plugin from Microsoft to view video samples.
This project has received grant support from the following sources: The National Institute of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research (1R21 NR008539); the American Cancer Society (RSGHP-08-005-01-CPHPS); Penn State University (the Social Science Research Institute, the Woodward Endowment for Medical Science Education, and the Tobacco Settlement Fund Award). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the granting agencies.
