First, put it in your ComfortCard. Then share it with the person who speaks for you.
Put it in your ComfortCard
One tap copies it into your ComfortCard family file, beside the insurance cards and care letters. ComfortCard asks first, then keeps it in that browser, on that device. No account, and nothing is uploaded.
They should have it before anyone needs it. The whole document travels inside the link, so no account is needed to open it.
Or let them hear it from you: .
Your wishes travel inside the link itself, in the part of the address after the #, which browsers don’t send to any server, and your words are never stored on ours. The link is encoded, not encrypted: anyone who has it can read the document, so send it only to people you trust.
Pass the cards on
Most families never write this down until someone has to guess. Send the cards, not your answers, to someone who should do theirs: a sibling, a parent, a friend.
This link is only the address of the cards. It carries nothing of yours: no name, no answers. Whoever opens it starts with empty cards, and their answers stay on their own device.
ComfortCard is a separate site. The wishes reach it only inside that link, in the part after the #, and it clears them from the address bar once it has read them. If your wishes change, put the new version in the same way: the family file keeps each copy with its date, and you can delete an old one there.
More you can do with itSay it in your own voice, hear it back, print it, a wallet card, a planning visit, and who else can help.
In big words
The same wishes in short lines. You can have your phone read them out loud.
Each part is read out (or shown in big words), then you say if it is right. At the end, each part that is not right opens its own card to change it.
Is that right?
Say it in your own voice
The person who speaks for you can hear it from you, not only read it. The phone shows one part at a time, and you say it your own way. Sending it sends the written document with it.
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The recording is made in this browser and kept on this phone. CareGoals never receives it. It leaves the phone only when you send it or save it. A saved recording can go in your ComfortCard family file, on the Care wishes paper, where it plays on the device. It is not a legal form; it goes with your Care Wishes document so people hear what you meant.
Does the person who speaks for you guess right?
Send them this link. On their own phone, they tap what they think you chose, one card at a time. Then their screen shows where you matched and where you did not. Talk about the ones that differ.
The link carries only the answers you tapped: not your name, and not words you typed. It travels in the part after the #, which browsers don’t send to any server. It is encoded, not encrypted, so send it only to the person you chose. Their guesses stay on their phone.
More ways to carry it
Print it for the fridge; the wallet card below prints on its own page and fits behind your ID. The print window can also save it as a PDF.
Wallet card
Care Wishes
Full document: scan, or caregoals.com
caregoals.com
On your iPhone, when it matters most
In an emergency, paramedics and ER staff check your phone's Medical ID from the lock screen — before they know anything else about you. That's where "who speaks for me" belongs, so it's the first thing they find, not the last.
Open Health → tap your photo → Medical ID → Edit.
Add the person who speaks for you as an emergency contact.
Paste your Care Wishes link into Medical Notes, and turn on Show When Locked.
Your words travel inside the link, in the part of the address after the #, which browsers don’t send to any server, and your words are never stored on ours. With Show When Locked on, anyone holding your phone can see the link. In an emergency, that’s the point.
Keep CareGoals on your phone
Add it to your Home Screen and it opens like an app, with your answers, even with no signal. Nothing changes about where they live: still only on this phone.
A plan on paper only changes what happens if the right people are holding it. Start with the clinician who knows your health.
Your own clinician
Bring it to an advance care planning visit
Medicare pays for a conversation with your own doctor, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant about exactly this. It’s where your wishes go into your medical record, where someone who knows your health can say what they would mean in practice, and where you can fill in your state’s form, or a POLST if you’re seriously ill.
When you book, ask for “an advance care planning visit.” Pair it with your yearly wellness visit and it costs you nothing, as long as your clinician accepts Medicare’s approved amount as full payment.
Bring the person who speaks for you, if you can.
Bring the visit packet: this document, plus a one-page worksheet your clinician fills in during the visit.
The packet leaves out the message to family and anything unfinished, which are meant for family. It’s made on this device, and the packet is never sent to CareGoals. Not on Medicare? Ask the health plan whether it covers an advance care planning visit. What Medicare covers · What the clinician sees
Caring for someone at home? Bring the family doctor a summary, too. Six questions give you a plan and a one-page summary, on a related site: clinicalswipe.com/caregivers
Read it again once a year
What you want can change as your life and health do. Read this once a year, and again after anything big: a new diagnosis, a loss, a move, a marriage or a divorce. Your yearly wellness visit is a natural time, because your clinician can update your record at the same visit.
The reminder is a calendar file made on this device. It holds none of your answers, only a note to come back here.
You've just been trusted with someone's voice.
They named what matters, so you'd never have to guess. When you're ready, put your own wishes into words. It takes about twenty minutes.
Is this your own document, opened on a new device?
There's no document on this device yet.
The Care Wishes document comes from fifteen short cards about what matters most to you, best answered with the person who would speak for you. It takes about twenty minutes, and your answers stay on this device.