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Pro-Change and Vital Decisions Partner to Help Patients with Serious Illnesses
Millburn, NJ. Aug. 14, 2008 – Pro-Change is assisting Vital Decisions in its mission to help empower seriously ill patients and their families to exert control in the decisions associated with their care at the end of life and to align these care decisions with their personal preferences and values.
Pro-Change will design Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change assessments for identifying a patient’s stage of readiness to actively participate in the planning of their care. Interventions and goals will be developed for those not yet ready, those getting ready and those ready to make a plan.
Vital Decisions will use the assessments, interventions, and goals to facilitate their care planning program, “The Living Well Program”. This program, consisting of a series of telephone based counseling sessions, is guided by the patients’ personal preferences and priorities in the areas of independence, interactivity and comfort and the actions that are required to be taken by the patient to realize their preferences.
The goal of this collaborative effort is to help seriously ill patients take control by articulating their preferences and choices, and to assist them in documenting and communicating those choices to loved ones and medical care providers. “Using the Transtheoretical Model will help us to improve the quality of our service and the value that we are able to provide to patients,” stated Mitchell Daitz, President of Vital Decisions.
About Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc.
Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. is the leading research and development company for computer-and coaching-based programs to change health risk behaviors. Based on the Transtheoretical Model developed by founder Dr. James O. Prochaska, Pro-Change programs are for entire populations and are uniquely tailored to each individual. Pro-Change programs have produced unprecedented impacts on multiple behaviors to enhance health and reduce health care costs.
About Vital Decisions
Vital Decisions is the leader in providing health care counseling services to individuals and their families who are facing serious medical situations. Their proprietary counseling methodology, called the Living Well Program, enables patients to become more active participants in identifying, communicating and incorporating their individual preferences and priorities into current and future decisions about their care. For more information, visit www.vitaldecisions.net