Coda Alliance : The Go Wish Game (Values Sort Cards)

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Decide what's important together. Coda Alliance presents the ‘Go Wish Game'. It gives you an easy, entertaining way to think and talk about what's important to you if you become seriously ill.

The starter game comes with two packs of cards in contrasting colors and instructions for using the cards individually or in pairs. Card packs may also be purchased in bulk. If you have received a pack of Go Wish cards as a handout at a conference or as part of a prior bulk purchase, a version of the instructions can be downloaded here.

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Using "Go Wish" Cards for Advance Care Planning (40:32) This podcast from Growth House Radio gives a realistic example of how the Go Wish cards are used, with tips on issues that often come up in real conversations. Hospice physician Elizabeth Menkin, M.D., has Les Morgan of Growth House use the cards to discuss his own preferences for end of life care. A podcast is an audio recording that you can listen to on your computer or portable digital media player. To listen to a selection, click the title and it should begin playing on your computer. To save the audio file, do a right click and select "Save target as". These audio files are free, and you may redistribute them so long as you do not modify them, and give credit to Growth House, Inc.

Development of the Go Wish game was made possible by a grant from Archstone Foundation. Production of the cards was supported by a community contributions grant from Kaiser Permanente.

The Go Wish Game was originally piloted as Values Sort Cards, and was demonstrated in a few workshop presentations such as the Kaiser Ethics Symposium on March 5, 2005.

The items on the cards were derived in part from results of a survey reported by Steinhauser, K. E. et al. "Factors Considered Important at the End of Life by Patients. Family, Physicians, and Other Care Providers." JAMA. 2000;284:2476-2482

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