Begin with the person — not a label
Prepare for care that reflects what matters.
Values in Care helps patients, families, clinicians, and spiritual-care teams prepare for serious-illness conversations with source-cited, person-first question guides.
Free and source-cited. No sign-in required. Educational only: not medical, legal, or religious advice, diagnosis, or emergency help.
Educational only
Conversation support, not medical, legal, religious, or emergency advice.
Source-cited
Public claims are tied to inspectable references and dataset versions.
Person-first
Tradition and worldview material is a prompt to ask, not a conclusion.
Review in progress
Independent clinical and community review is being sought and disclosed.
Choose what you need today
Three practical ways to use the site
Start with a useful next step. Each path is designed to make a difficult conversation clearer without replacing individual clinical, legal, or spiritual guidance.
Role-based entry
One resource, shaped around each role
Begin in the view closest to your work, then move across perspectives as the conversation develops. Each view keeps the same person-first boundaries and visible sources.
Patients and families
Start with what matters, prepare care-team questions, and find practical support.
Start hereClinicians
Use bedside prompts, decision explanations, and scope-aware faith or meaning guides.
Open clinician viewChaplains and spiritual care
Find spiritual-care framing, worldview prompts, and interfaith bedside considerations.
Open spiritual-care viewReviewers and partners
Inspect methods, limitations, evidence coverage, and the review/correction pathway.
Review or partnerShared value
Help every participant enter the same conversation prepared
The value is not another content library. It is a common, inspectable starting point that helps people surface what matters before time-pressured decisions are made.
For the person and family
Name priorities in everyday language and arrive with questions worth asking.
For the care team
See the person behind the chart and open a more focused, respectful conversation.
For spiritual care
Explore meaning, ritual, community, and worldview without turning identity into an assumption.
For organizations
Evaluate a transparent, source-linked resource through a bounded, low-burden pilot.
Faith, meaning, and worldview
Use perspectives as question guides, not assumptions
Whether someone is religious, secular, humanist, unsure, or changing over time, the safest starting point is to ask what matters to this person now.
Evidence preview
See the evidence, not just the promise
These source-linked figures show why this work matters. Explore the underlying claims, methods, coverage, and known limitations in the Data Hub before relying on them.
Each year, an estimated 56.8 million people, including 25.7 million in the last year of life, are in need of palliative care.
— World Health Organization
Around 78% of people in need of palliative care live in low- and middle-income countries.
— WHO / UN News
Only about 14% of people who need palliative care currently receive it.
— World Health Organization
Independent review still needed
Help set the standard for a resource people can trust
We are seeking clinical, chaplaincy, faith-specific, secular/humanist, patient-family, accessibility, and health-literacy reviewers. Completed reviews will be scoped, credited when reviewers agree, and reflected in the public correction record. Until then, review remains clearly marked as in progress.