Coda Alliance : Respecting Choices®, a two-day Advance Care Planning Workshop for Facilitators : Why does Respecting Choices succeed?

• Treats advance care planning as an ongoing process, not as an event designed to produce a product;
• Shifts the focus on end-of-life decision-making away from the completion of the document toward facilitating discussion about values and preferences;
• Shifts the locus of advance care planning away from hospitals and physicians into the community and specifically to the family unit;
• Promotes extensive training of non-physician community volunteers. Does not assume that the physician must do all steps of the advance care planning process with each patient;
• Refocuses discussion of preferences away from autonomy toward personal relationships. Rather than ask a patient what he or she wants, they reframe the question as, "How can you guide your loved ones to make the best decisions for you?"
• Works with hospitals, area physicians offices, and individuals to ensure that completed advance directives are available when and where the patients receive care.

Our mission is to provide you with practical skills and tools to plan and receive the care you and members of our community want at the end of life.

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