Practical End-of-Life Planning with a Parent: A Conversation and Documentation Workbook

Knowing what end-of-life care looks like is not enough. You also need the documents, the conversations, and the care plans in place. This hands-on course walks you through that work with templates for each step. By the end of this course you will have a documented set of your parent's preferences, completed advance directive forms ready for signature, a list of care team contacts, a written care plan covering common scenarios, and a communication plan for siblings and other family. What you will learn: - How to open and structure conversations about wishes, values, and fears - How to fill out advance directive and healthcare proxy forms accurately - How to organize medical records, medications, and insurance documents into a single binder - How to build a care team list including primary care, specialists, home health, and hospice - How to write a scenario-based care plan covering pain crises, hospital transfers, and last-days care - How to coordinate siblings using a shared document and recurring family check-ins - How to revisit and update the plan as the situation changes The course is structured as a workbook. Each module covers one piece of the process, provides templates, walks through a filled example, and guides you to complete your own version. This course is written for adult children supporting an aging parent who is willing to discuss these topics, ideally before a crisis. By the end you will have replaced anxiety with a binder of completed documents and clear care plans, and the family will face future decisions from a position of preparation rather than improvisation.