Course Description
This course will prepare and encourage public health and aging services professionals to consider their vital role in assisting older Americans plan and document what should be done in the event they become seriously ill or lose decision-making capacity.
Three course modules cover
- What advance care planning is and why it’s needed.
- How to initiate difficult but essential conversations and document personal values and preferences.
- What public health and aging services professionals can do to leverage their unique position in the community to assist clients and constituents with advance care planning.
- Where to find reliable guidance and resources.
A worksheet is included which, if completed, will encourage and enable better collaboration and cooperation between public health and aging services networks and other key community-based partners. This course is provided free of charge by CDC’s Healthy Aging Program.
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