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Decision Tool

Your Mother needs assistance. She's sharp as a tack, but arthritis has severely limited her mobility. She wants to stay in or near the community she knows. How can you help her find answers?

Decision Tool makes this kind of planning and decision making easy. A straightforward set of questionnaires leads you through all the criteria involved (if your Mom is computer savvy, she can navigate the questions herself). Then, based on your answers, Decision Tool guides you to relevant resources in the region you select.

Now you're ready to shape your own plan. Drawing from the resources you've found, simply save the information you want to your own home page and print out a personal plan that's uniquely customized to your mother's needs, preferences and location.

It's not only the elderly who can get accurate, meaningful help with Decision Tool. This versatile decision tool can be configured for whatever topics and populations you want: long-term care, people with disabilities or youth, for example. You decide what areas make most sense for your community and create your own configurations—which automatically work with your existing database.

Decision Tool Innovations

  • Put the power in their hands. Coping with major life issues requires skill, experience and careful thought. All of these come together in Resource House's self-guiding decision tool, giving individuals the power to create custom plans for themselves, relatives or friends.
  • Educate your community. As users respond to questions, Decision Tool links their answers to taxonomy terms, then generates a list of appropriate local services. Users often discover service categories they wouldn't otherwise have known to look for.
  • Adapt the language to the individual. Once the Resource House decision tool establishes who the plan is for, it refers to that person by name or designation in all subsequent questions—e.g., "Amy," "your father" or "your sister."
  • Guide users to services, documents, tips and Web links. Decision Tool is robust enough to accommodate a range of helpful resources, including other Websites, tip sheets, PDF documents and lists of services in the local community.
  • Let users create and save their own personal plans. All selected services, documents, tips and Web links go into the user's plan. Then the plan can be output as a PDF file for printing or emailing to others.
  • One user can have many plans. There's no limit on the number of care plans a user can create and maintain. Caregivers or professionals who manage more than one care recipient especially appreciate this feature.
  • Configure tools to fit your preferences—and your database. Questionnaires are designed to link questions and answers with taxonomy topics in your database.

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Client Quotes

Photo of Krista Boston Krista Boston

Director, Consumer Assistance Programs
Minnesota DHS


"The Long-Term Care Choices tool is some of the best work I’ve seen this team ever do... Wow, I am so proud of this tool, and we all can be. Good work all. All I can say is Wow!"

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