Advance Health Directives

The Conversation Starter Guide called For Caregivers of People with Alzheimer's or Other Forms of Dementia will help you and your family to understand what matters most to someone living with Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, and help them have a say in their health care.

The Conversation Project has additional Conversation Starter Guides available on related topics to help you have "the conversation" with the important people in your life about future health care needs including end-of-life care. 

Find out about Honoring Choices Virginia's Virtual Advance Care Planning Conversations. 

It's important to consider long term care and end-of-life care options. 

The Choosing Your Own Path video from Honoring Choices Virginia shares real stories about loved ones and choices they wish they could have made. 

Honoring Choices Virginia has developed a suite of educational materials about advance care planning and related topics. These resources are free to the public and available for personal download. 

The Because I Love You (BILY) planning guide was developed by Honoring Choices Virginia to help you begin thinking about important future needs, such as health care, long-term care, estate planning, and funerals.

Have you done Advance Care Planning for your health care. Are your affairs in order? This infographic provides a checklist to make legal and financial plans now for your health care in the future. 

Advance directives explain how you want medical decisions to be made when you're too ill to speak for yourself.