National Healthcare Decisions Day 2025
National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD) is observed annually on April 16 to raise awareness, educate, and encourage individuals and healthcare professionals about the value of advance care planning.
Led by The Conversation Project (TCP), NHDD aims to motivate people to communicate their healthcare preferences and ensure that medical providers and institutions honor those decisions. TCP offers a variety of Advance Care Planning tools and resources on its website, including:
- Your Conversation Starter Guide
- Your Guide to Choosing Health Care Proxy
- Your Guide to Being a Health Care Proxy
- Your Guide for Talking with a Health Care Team
- For Caregivers of People with Alzheimer’s or Other Forms of Dementia
- What Matters to Me Workbook
- COVID-19 public messaging resources
Additional advance care planning resources are also available from other JAHF grantees and partners, including:
- PREPARE For Your Care is an interactive online platform designed to support individuals as they make medical decisions. PREPARE For THEIR Care offers guidance and resources specifically for caregivers.
- A CAPC video provides insights on how to communicate with the media about palliative care.
- The Serious Illness Messaging Toolkit is a digital guide for effectively communicating with the public about care for those with serious illnesses.
- FAIR Health provides practical tools and cost-related healthcare information tailored to older adults and their caregivers.
Visit the NHDD website.
Get involved in NHDD 2025.
Join the movement to promote advance care planning.
Go to TCP's resources for NHDD.
Go to TCP's free Conversation Starter guides.
Go to TCP's Getting Started Guide for Communities.
Go to the National POLST.
