Why do you need an End-of-Life Planning App?
The ONCE App uses a multiple-choice questionnaire supported by an AI algorithm to produce a reliable, customized, and comprehensive End-of-Life Plan
A Holistic Approach
to End-of-Life
The ONCE App goes beyond traditional advance directives to incorporate medical, legal, emotional, spiritual, and personal preferences. It addresses physical comfort, emotional support, and desired family interactions, ensuring a more comprehensive and personalized plan.
Plain Language and
Accessibility
The ONCE App questionnaire is written in clear, easy-to-understand language, ensuring accessibility for those without legal or medical expertise. This clarity helps you and your family better understand your choices and communicate effectively with healthcare providers. A pop-up glossary provides definitions for bolded terms throughout the questionnaire.
Encouraging
Conversations
The ONCE App enables meaningful discussions between you, your family, and healthcare providers about end-of-life care. Talking about these decisions in advance reduces the emotional burden on loved ones, ensuring they can honor your wishes during critical moments.
Flexibility in Changing
Preferences
Your End-of-Life Plan can be updated anytime, as long as you remain capable of making decisions, allowing for adjustments as circumstances or beliefs change. To prevent unintentional modifications, users can assign monitoring rights to trusted loved ones in case of a memory loss diagnosis.
Spiritual
Reflection
The ONCE App provides a space for you to consider and outline your spiritual and religious preferences. For those of faith, it allows you to specify your wishes, including the involvement of community or religious figures and the observance of important rituals.
Reducing Family
Conflict
The ONCE App minimizes uncertainty by clearly outlining end-of-life preferences, helping prevent family disputes over medical decisions. Communicating these wishes in advance is a gift you give your loved ones, ensuring they can make informed choices without guesswork or conflict.
FAQ`s
Who is ONCE for?
ONCE is for anyone who wants to clearly express their end-of-life wishes. By making decisions while you are cognitively and physically able, you gain peace of mind knowing your plan will be honored when you can no longer advocate for yourself.
What does ONCE help with?
ONCE guides you through a step-by-step questionnaire to create a comprehensive End-of-Life Plan, ensuring your preferences are clearly articulated.
What services are available through ONCE?
ONCE offers a step-by-step questionnaire to help you create a clear and well-structured End-of-Life Plan. It also provides tools to designate Plan Advocates, ensuring your wishes are honored when you can no longer manage your End-of-Life Story. Premium services include a membership that grants access to third-party support, offering guidance and resources to help you confidently complete your plan.
How does the ONCE app work?
ONCE offers a step-by-step questionnaire to help you create a clear, well-structured End-of-Life Plan. It provides tools to designate Plan Advocates, ensuring your wishes are honored when you can no longer advocate for yourself. By answering key questions, you provide valuable insights into your preferences. The app compiles this information into a shareable format for future reference, helping your loved ones carry out your plan with confidence.
Who are the ONCE Care Managers?
ONCE’s Care Managers are experienced professionals from diverse backgrounds, including licensed social workers, hospice nurses, and psychologists. They are trained to support you in making informed End-of-Life decisions. While they provide general guidance on healthcare and medical-related matters, they are not medical professionals and cannot offer specific medical advice. (Refer to our Terms of Service for more details.)
How much does ONCE cost?
Take control of your End-of-Life Story at no cost with ONCE by: Following a step-by-step questionnaire to create a clear, well-structured plan covering Lifestyle Wishes, Dying with Dignity Wishes, and After-Life Wishes. Designating Plan Advocates to ensure your wishes are honored when you can no longer manage your plan. Providing your loved ones with a thoughtful, detailed plan that reflects your preferences.
How long can I use ONCE for?
You can use ONCE for as long as you need, with your answers securely saved on your iCloud server. All features for communicating with your Plan Advocates are available at no cost, with no time limits on app usage. Additionally, you will have unlimited access to the library content whenever you need it.
App Designed
for End-of-Life Planning
App uses a multiple-choice questionnaire supported by an AI algorithm to produce a reliable, customized, and comprehensive End-of-Life Plan
Create Your Plan
Review a sample End-of-Life Plan to explore available choices. Use a guided multiple-choice questionnaire to outline your personal, medical, and emotional wishes. Access clarification pop-ups for additional information and definitions to support informed decision-making.
Educate yourself with Resource
The ONCE App’s End-of-Life Questionnaire helps you explore options for comfort, dignity, and quality of life, recognizing your preferences are deeply personal. Our End-of-Life Resources offer additional insights into available choices. As care options evolve, organizations and practices continue to adapt to better support individual decisions.
Review End-of-Life Plans
The ONCE App enables you to review and update your plan as needed. End-of-life care options continue to evolve, with organizations adapting to better support individual choices. Regularly reviewing your plan ensures it aligns with your changing lifestyle and wishes. You’ll receive periodic reminders to update it, keeping your preferences current.
Select your Plan Advocates
Appointing trusted decision-makers ensures your wishes are honored when you can no longer make decisions yourself. We recommend selecting at least three Advocates—one for medical treatment, one for financial matters, and one for spiritual or personal guidance.
