Imagine you have just been diagnosed with a health condition that may shorten your life. During this time you will need to make a number of decisions about your treatment and care. However, making these decisions can be difficult without the right information and support. My Care Companion is a decision aid designed to support shared decision making for people who have been diagnosed with a life-limiting condition (one that will shorten their life). It helps people, their healthcare team and those close to them explore realistic and achievable treatment and care options to make decisions that align with their values.

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I was brought on by the High Benefit Care at End of Life (HBCEL) team under Queensland Health to co-design a solution to addressing low-benefit care for those with a life-limiting condition in Queensland. This involved an extensive collaborative process with a working group of clinicians and consumers from Health Consumers Queensland. The decision aid was selected from a number of ideas imagined by participants to prototype and develop for further testing and future implementation. I was involved in facilitating workshops and focus groups, designing and refining the prototype and creating a video to communicate the experience of using the Care Companion.