title: Go Wish: a tool for end-of-life care conversations.
abstract: The Go Wish card game is an advance care planning tool developed by Coda Alliance to help people have conversations about end-of-life care. Initially, this tool was designed as an easy, entertaining exercise for low-functioning assisted-living facility residents, their family members, and their CNA/nursing assistants (many of whom have limited English language skills.) Use of the tool can be proctored by staff or even a caregiver after minimal instruction. It turns out to be a widely applicable and inexpensive tool to help people discuss end-of-life care. The cards focus the conversations, provide important vocabulary to give voice to patients' needs and concerns, and offer a means for sharing those ideas. The Go Wish tool has developed into professionally designed and printed cards that are boxed as a game set. This paper describes the development of the Go Wish cards and reports on some of the diverse cases in which they have been useful.
authors.affiliation: Coda Alliance, San Jose, California 95125, USA. ESMenkin@gmail.com
authors.forename: Elizabeth S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Menkin
mesh_terms: D032722:Advance Care Planning; D000368:Aged; D002140:California; D003142:Communication; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003657:Decision Making; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D017051:Hospice Care; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010166:Palliative Care; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology*