Communicating with your Doctor

Checklist for Communicating Clearly with Your Doctor

Source: IlluminAge Communication Partners

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Planning ahead before going to your healthcare provider helps ensure a productive visit. Bring this form along to help you remember instructions. Includes advance directives information.

Having Surgery? What You Need to Know

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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Questions to ask your doctor and your surgeon

Informed Consent Factsheet

Source: IlluminAge Communication Partners

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Factsheet explains "informed consent"; includes suggestions and checklist for making health care decisions

My Family Health Portrait

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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Online tool for families to use in compiling a health history

Next Step in Care

Source: United Hospital Fund

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Website offers a range of guides and checklists for family caregivers and healthcare providers of persons with serious illness.

Since You Care Guide: Becoming an Effective Advocate for Care

Source: MetLife/National Alliance for Caregiving

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For caregivers, being an advocate is one of the most important andoften most challenging roles they will assume in trying to best meet the needs of the person to whom they are providing care.

Talking With Your Doctor: A Guide for Older People

Source: National Institute on Aging

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Suggestions for seniors and family members

Talking With Your Older Patient: A Clinician’s Handbook

Source: National Institute on Aging

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Free booklet helps healthcare workers best communicate with seniors