When hospice, palliative care, or comfort care comes up, the conversation moves fast — and decisions get made inside it. This is the one-page guide that helps you walk in ready, and walk out without the questions you wish you'd asked.
A free one-page guide: the 7 questions a calm bedside nurse would ask out loud — the ones that get lost when a meeting is moving fast and everyone is frightened. Questions like: is this reversible? what does the first week actually look like? who in the family helps decide? Tell us where to send it.
You're not alone, and you're not behind. The team mentioned hospice, palliative care, comfort care — or you're staring at a discharge decision, an ICU update, a "we should talk as a family" message — and now you're trying to figure out what that actually means, what to ask, and whether everyone is on the same page.
Most families don't realize what they needed to ask until the meeting is over and the decision is already made. This guide is the seven questions that change that — the ones that keep everyone on the same page, and help you reach a choice you can stand behind, whatever direction it is.
Here are the seven questions — open them now, and keep them somewhere easy to find before the next conversation:
Open the 7-question guide (PDF)We're building a network of patient advocates — people who guide families through exactly these decisions. Tell us a little about your situation and we'll reach out if there's a match near you. Or just take the guide above — that's completely fine.
If something is happening tonight and you need to talk it through with someone before the next conversation — reach out to your hospital's palliative care consult team or social worker. They are there for exactly this.