Your story becomes your advance care plan, your family's treasure, and the knowledge that helps others find their words.
A SolvingHealth brand. Billable ACP encounters (CPT 99497 / 99498).
I watched my husband on a ventilator for three weeks. I held his hand and promised I’d never let that happen to me. So here’s what I want you to know.
Frank was the kind of man who fixed everything himself. The roof, the carburetor, the grandkids’ bicycles. He never asked for help, not once in 48 years of marriage. So when the stroke came, there was no plan. No conversation. Nothing written down. Just me, standing in a hallway at Good Samaritan, while a doctor I’d never met asked me what Frank would want.
I didn’t know. That’s the thing nobody tells you. You can sleep next to someone for half a century and still not know. We talked about everything — the grandkids, the garden, whether to sell the cabin. But never this. Never the hard thing.
So here’s what I want my daughters to know. I want mornings on the porch with coffee. I want to hear about what my grandchildren are building. I want to be read to when I can’t read myself. And when it’s time — and we all know when it’s time — I want to be home. Not in a hallway. Not on a ventilator. Home, with the people I spent my whole life loving.
That’s my plan. Not a form. Not a checkbox. Just the truth about what makes my life worth living.
Real people. Real conversations. The ones most of us haven’t had yet.
“I’m not dying. But I watched my dad die without anyone knowing what he wanted. I’m not doing that to my kids.”
“In my culture, we don’t talk about death. I’m changing that for my daughters.”
“I’m a surgeon. I’ve seen what happens when families don’t have the conversation. I’m having mine now.”
“My baby is six months old. Here’s what I need her to know if I’m not here.”
“I’ve been readmitted to the hospital five times. My daughter started co-op.care because of me.”
“My advance directive is a spreadsheet. My story is everything the spreadsheet can’t hold.”
Three steps from conversation to care plan.
Voice, text, or a conversation with our AI listener. There are no wrong answers. Start anywhere — a memory, a fear, a wish, a promise.
Your narrative becomes a structured care plan. Values, preferences, wishes — extracted from your own words. You review everything before it’s saved.
Public — inspire others. Community — CareGoals members only. Private — family only. You control every word, every audience, every change.
Pick one. Read how others answered. Then find your own words.
“Tell me about a time someone you love was sick.”
1,247 answered“What does a perfect day look like?”
1,891 answered“What are you most proud of?”
2,034 answered“What do you want your grandchildren to remember about you?”
1,583 answered“What are you afraid of?”
987 answered“If you could tell your family one thing, what would it be?”
2,318 answeredThe story IS the advance care plan. AI extracts clinical preferences from narrative. A physician reviews and signs via Altru.care. The conversation you were going to have anyway — now it generates a care plan and a reimbursable encounter.
CareGoals is a SolvingHealth Cloud module. Clinical oversight provided by Altru.care.
The conversation is growing.
Death doulas, end-of-life counselors, and community guides help families navigate what medicine can’t.
They’re not medical providers. They’re trained companions who help with the emotional, spiritual, and practical aspects of dying. They help families start the hard conversations, be fully present at the end, and find their way through grief. Think of them as a guide for the journey that no one prepares you for.
Help starting the conversation. Planning what matters. A doula and CareGoals together — so your wishes are heard, written down, and understood.
Presence at the bedside. Comfort when words run out. Advocacy for the patient’s wishes — the ones captured in their CareGoals story.
Grief support. Legacy preservation. Helping families with what comes next — not just logistics, but finding meaning in the loss.
CareGoals conversations can be shared with your doula, creating continuity between your wishes, your family, and your guide.