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 Advance Care Planning

1. Advance Care Planning: It's about how you live  - Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care
2. Planning Ahead: Have you made a plan?  - Caring Connections, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
3. Advance Care Planning - StratisHealth

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Advance Care Directives

1. Advance Care Planning: What is an advance care directive? - Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care
2. Advance Care Directives: Have you made a plan? - Caring Connections, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization 
3. Honoring Choices Minnesota Health Care Directive - Twin Cities Medical Society

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Health Care Agent

1. What is a health care agent?  - Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care
2. Health Care Agents: Choosing one and being one - Caring Connections, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

Choosing a Spokesperson - Compassion and Support at the End of Life

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Beginning Conversations

1. Advance Care Planning Tip Sheet: Conversation Before Crisis - National Association of Social Workers
2. Finding Your Way: Talking About End of Life Decisions - AARP
3. Community Conversations on Compassionate Care - Compassion and Support at the End of Life

• AARP Bulletin (2011): Talking Helps Families with End-of-Life Decisions (new window)

• MPR News: Twin Cities Program Helps Patients Discuss End-of-Life Planning (new window)

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Multicultural Resources

Culture Care Connection - StratisHealth

1. Multicultural End-of-Life Care Materials & Resources - Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care
2. What is hospice? Somali, Hmong and Spanish bilingual materials - Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care
3. What is Hospice? (Hmong to English translation) - Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care
4. What is hospice? (Somali to English translation) - Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care
5. Serving Latino/Hispanic Patients & Families in End-of-Life Care: A Guide for Hospice & Palliative Care Providers - Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care
6. Serving Somali Patients & Families in End-of-Life Care - Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care
7. Promotores de Salud Hospice Training: A Minnesota End of Life Care Workshop - Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care

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Findings 

2011 Citizens League Listening Session Findings 
How do diverse communities in the Twin Cities experience and plan for end-of-life decision making? In 2011, eleven focus groups with a total of 49 persons from differing backgrounds and perspectives reflected on end-of-life care conversations and preferences. What motivates people to plan ahead and have family conversations on end-of-life wishes? What are barriers to this conversation? How can we begin this family dialogue in a sensitive, caring way? This report by the Citizens League captures the store-telling experiences through in-person and online conversations. We invite you to explore a host of illuminating insights, seven key findings and implications for future  efforts that arose from simple acts of sharing stories about life experiences.

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