Sage interviews your family. Not a form — a conversation. Your answers become an advance directive your care team can actually use.
What matters most to you in daily life? What makes a good day? What would you never want to lose? Sage asks the questions that are hard to ask yourself.
Your answers become a readable care summary — not buried in legal language. Medical preferences, daily life preferences, and the person you trust to speak for you.
Download a one-page summary to bring to your doctor. Share access with the family members you choose. Update it whenever your thinking changes.
Your AI guide asks about what matters most to you, who you trust, and what you’d want if you couldn’t speak for yourself. There are no wrong answers. Most people finish in one session, about 20 minutes.
Your values, preferences, and proxy designation are organized into a readable document. You review and edit before anything is finalized.
Print a one-page summary for your next doctor visit. Share access with family members. If you need formal legal documents — a POLST, a power of attorney — a provider or attorney can help you formalize those next.
Designates the person authorized to make medical decisions on your behalf when you cannot. Without one, hospitals default to next-of-kin in a legally determined order — which may not match your wishes.
Documents your preferences about specific medical interventions — ventilators, feeding tubes, resuscitation, dialysis — if you are terminally ill or permanently unconscious. Your values on paper, not your family's interpretation of them.
A Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment is a medical order — not just a statement of wishes — used when someone is seriously ill. It travels with the patient and guides emergency responders. Completed with and signed by a physician.
What legal documents miss: what matters to you, what a good day looks like, who you are as a person. CareGoals starts here. This context helps your proxy make decisions that feel right, not just legal.
CareGoals helps you build the values summary and proxy designation. A licensed attorney can formalize the legal documents; a physician can complete a POLST when clinically indicated.
The doctor needs to know: should they proceed with a surgery that might extend her life but leave her permanently on a ventilator? Your brother thinks she'd want everything done. Your sister isn't sure. Nobody knows. The doctor is waiting.
Family members disagree — and may never fully reconcile
Medical team acts on assumptions, not wishes
The decision haunts whoever made it
Hospital defaults to legal next-of-kin, not the person she trusted
She documented her wishes eight months ago
She said: comfort over machines if there's no real hope of recovery
Her proxy — the person she chose — can speak with confidence
There's no argument. There's just love.
"We kept putting it off. After Mom had her stroke, we had no idea what she wanted. CareGoals gave us a place to start — even 20 minutes changed everything."
Renee, 54 — daughter of stroke survivor"My dad was the tough, don't-talk-about-it type. Sage asked him questions in a way I never could. He opened up about things he'd never said out loud before."
Marcus, 49 — son of a veteran"I'm 71. I don't want my kids arguing about me. I did my session alone one afternoon. Now they know exactly what I want."
Carol, 71 — completed her own planA real document. One your family and care team can actually use.
"Staying in my own home as long as safely possible. Morning walks. Family dinners on Sundays. Being treated with dignity."
Comfort-focused care if meaningful recovery is unlikely. No ventilator if no realistic chance of independent life.
Healthcare proxy: Sarah W. (daughter)
Secondary: Michael W. (son)
Outdoors daily if possible. Jazz music. Privacy during personal care.
This summary is generated from your Sage conversations. Printable as a one-page PDF for any provider.
CareGoals is free to use on its own. If your family is navigating aging, recovery, or home care decisions, a co-op.care membership ($59/mo) includes CareGoals, a dedicated care guide, and access to worker-owned companion care in Colorado. The goals conversation you have here travels with you into the co-op.care care plan.
Learn about co-op.careSage will interview you. About 20 minutes. No preparation needed. Your answers build your advance directive.
Start now — freeThis tool supports conversations — it is not a legal document or medical advice. A care summary generated by CareGoals does not constitute an advance directive, POLST, healthcare power of attorney, or any other legally binding instrument. Consult a licensed attorney for formal advance directive documents and a physician for clinical guidance.