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Sharing Your Wishes™
Americans live longer, healthier lives than ever before. Even with Americans living longer, most will experience serious chronic illness or disability in the last phase of life. It is important that people plan ahead to prepare for complex health issues and dilemmas that may occur in their final years of life.
Sharing Your Wishes is a program to help older adults become aware of the importance of planning in advance for their health care in the event that they experience an illness or condition that prevents them from making or communicating decisions. This is the best way to ensure that their choices are known, understood, and honored.
Sharing Your Wishes programs are in seven counties throughout Western and Central New York. Each community has a coalition of people committed to improving care for older adults. The effort is supported by the Community Health Foundation of Western and Central New York, with the goal of increasing awareness of advance care planning and the importance of health care decision-making for older adults.
Why Community Coalitions?
It has often been said that health care is a local issue - it is locally provided and locally consumed. That means that, with the exception of changes that can only be implemented through major policy change, improvements in health care begin with people and care systems in local communities. A profound shift in practice cannot occur from a centralized location or by a single part of the health care system. It is essential that local partners in our communities work together in this effort. Local - county-based - coalitions on long-term care exist in several places across our regions. Through the support of the Community Health Foundation these coalitions are able to bring attention to the importance of planning ahead for frailty and the last phase of life.
The Community Health Foundation of Western and Central New York is dedicated to improving the health and health care of the people and communities of western and central New York.
CHFWCNY is a highly interactive, practical organization that works with and through our local communities to support, develop and implement positive changes in health and health care.
For more information, see www.chfwcny.org, Current Projects.
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Important Information |
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Community Health Foundation of Western & Central New York
Sharing Your Wishes Coalitions
Community Resources Tool Kit
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Advance Directives
