Inside this 8-week program, you will…
Until January 31st, Use CODE “2024” at Checkout for $100 OFF!
Avoid STRESS, OVERWHELM & UNCERTAINTY
MAKE MEDICAL DECISIONS
WITH CONFIDENCE
Follow a roadmap and be prepared as a decision-maker for your person living with dementia.
Plain and Simple: Make Your Plan with Dr. Lamb Will Save you TIME and Stress and is OPEN for Enrollment
Advocating for a Person Living with Dementia,
Speaking as their voice, considering what’s best, and then needing to make their medical decisions can easily come with second guessing, regret, indecision, and stress.
As their decision maker you want…
Your person to have the best care possible…
To have confidence and peace of mind knowing you are making the right decisions…
To feel seen, heard, and understood by your person’s physicians…
But here’s the thing…
Our healthcare system is not set up to give professionals the time it takes to teach you what you need to know.
Fortunately, the weight you are carrying around about the uncertainty or concern you feel towards making your person’s medical decisions is not something you have to live with.
In order to prevent unnecessary stress, avoid second guessing, and keep your peace of mind, it is imperative that you prepare for your person’s future by creating a plan.
Let me be direct for a moment,
Planning for your person’s future medical issues and the decisions you will have to make for them is not the only solution to all dementia related problems.
But it IS a powerful solution to you no longer living in uncertainty and worry about your person’s future.
Planning allows you to offload this weight from yourself and anyone else who will be helping you make decisions for your person.
Why?
It’s simple…
You do not know what you do not know.
This is true for all of us.
We do not make our best decisions in times of crisis.
When things are sprung upon us, we second guess ourselves and often get stuck in indecision.
When there is no plan, your person is at higher risk of receiving too much or too little care.
Planning frees up space in your mind so you can focus on what is important in your own life.
It also gives you back the mental space to better advocate and improve your person’s quality of care.
Hi there!
I’m Brittany Lamb, MD.
As an ER physician, navigating medical decision-making in dementia is a routine part of my job. Let’s just say I know a thing or two because…
I’ve helped countless dementia decision-makers choose the best care options for their person.
I know how the healthcare system works, and I know that within that system, there are holes that you will face. There are huge gaps between what you need and what you are given.
I believe you are capable of making choices on behalf of your person that you can feel at peace with AND…..
I know that the key to less stress and more peace of mind for decision-makers lies in how informed and prepared you are.
The truth is…
Most of the time, we are not making end of life decisions. Those, while emotional, are usually more straightforward.
The medical decisions you regularly make along the journey of your person’s life living with dementia are extremely important.
They will affect your person’s everyday life. And yes, sometimes how long they live.
That’s why I created “Make Your Plan with Dr. Lamb.”
INTRODUCING
Make your Plan
with Dr. Lamb
An 8-week, physician-taught program that guides you through a step-by-step process for creating a plan of action, making decisions confidently, and understanding your person’s condition.
Through this program, you will create a medical decision plan, so you can offload uncertainty and focus your energy on what matters most; advocating for your person while maintaining your own well-being and happiness.
What’s Inside Make Your Plan with Dr. Lamb
Accordion Content
In this Module, we’re going to get super clear on what it means to make medical decisions for someone else.
Module 1 Highlights:
- Learn the one rule you must follow as a medical decision maker.
- I’ll show you the missteps caregivers and decision makers often make so you can avoid them.
- Tackle the topic of capacity so you will know when you’re actually able to make your person’s medical decisions and you can do so with confidence.
Accordion Content
This Module is all about considering other steps you’ll need to tackle before, or alongside, creating your medical decision plan.
Including:
- Legal Planning.
- Financial Planning.
- Mindset work & resources you may want to look into now before you need them.
- Why you must, and how to, gather your person’s medical history.
Accordion Content
In this Module we’re going to develop a cornerstone in your plan by identifying your person’s overall goal in their care so you can choose treatment without feeling overwhelmed.
Module 3 will teach you:
- What the three goals of care are and how we all fall into one of them.
- Understanding that even if you can not directly discuss any of this with your person, you will need to decide on their behalf.
- The importance of understanding what “living” means to your person.
- How to use your person’s value of quality of life to determine their overall goal.
- A process for determining when their goal may change.
Accordion Content
Now that you have identified your person’s goals of care and gathered their medical history, it is time to start learning how you can plan to make decisions on their behalf now and into the future.
In Module 4 you’ll learn:
- My process for keeping your Medical Decision Plan organized.
- A step-by-step framework for making any medical decision.
- My 3-step process for checking in to make sure your Medical Decision Plan does not need to be updated.
Accordion Content
In Module 5 we are going to dive into the medical issues your person is likely to face because they have been diagnosed with a disease causing dementia.
We will cover common injuries, infections (UTI, pneumonia etc.), and other medical issues like difficulty swallowing and delirium.
They are broken up by condition. so that If and when these issues happen to your person in the future, you can log back into the course and review this info so you feel informed and prepared for what’s at hand.
For each condition you will learn:
- What the symptoms look like.
- What we do to diagnose the condition.
- The most common treatment options to choose from most to least aggressive.
- Whether the condition can cause someone to be critically ill (aka very sick or injured and in need of care inside the hospital.
- Questions you should ask the care team.
- How things could present differently or be more complicated to diagnose due to your person’s dementia symptoms.
Accordion Content
This Module is beneficial for both your person living with dementia and YOU.
In Module 6, you’ll learn to improve your communication skills and make better use of conversations with your person’s care team so you can make decisions with more peace of mind and confidence.
AND we’ll take a deep dive into common medical emergencies including:
- Stroke.
- TIA (aka “mini stroke”)
- Heart attacks.
- Heart Failure.
- Atrial Fibrillation.
- Kidney injuries vs Failure.
- Appendicitis, Diverticulitis, & Small Bowel Obstruction.
- Syncope (aka “passing out”)
Accordion Content
As your person’s advocate you will need to understand terms like sepsis, intubation, and code status.
Inside Module 7 I will teach you, in plain language, about the major decisions people have to make quickly when their person becomes critically ill.
Module 7 Highlights:
- Ways to recognize your person is critically ill (sometimes it is not as obvious as you might think).
- Knowing what questions to ask the team.
- Understanding care in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit).
- How to prevent delirium in your person.
Accordion Content
You will be the number one asset to your person when using the Medical Decision Plan you have created, but there are a few other tools, services, and resources you’ll need to be aware of.
Including:
- A process for reviewing your person’s medications and who to go to when you have questions about them.
- The difference between Palliative care and Hospice and when your person would qualify for these services based on their goals of care.
- When and how to use medical order forms, like the Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) form and POLST forms, and practical things you need to know about these documents.
Plus…
Receive an Analysis of Your Person’s Medical History
from Dr. Lamb!
This recorded, watch-on-your-own-time, rewindable, physician analysis gives you an in-depth explanation on…
- What medical conditions your person is most at risk for based on their medical history (which you will learn to gather and organize)
- How to focus your time by identifying the next or most important medical decisions you will most likely have to make on your person’s behalf
- What you need to know about your person’s current medications. (Risks, side effects to look out for, questions to ask their medical team, and what you need to consider for the future)
- Additional resources or services your person may need in order to receive the best care possible
Preparing for what’s to come and having a unique plan for your person is possible.
Improve the quality of the time you do have with medical professionals and avoid navigating a sea of endless information so your person has the care they would want for themselves.
” I am more confident…”
I’m more confident that I can and should take a more active role in guiding and selecting the medical care for my person. The goals of care section (Module 3) helped me a lot in that regard.
T., Weyrauch
” …easy to receive and doesn’t feel overwhelming!”
Dr. Lamb is no doubt knowledgeable on this topic and also extremely kind. Her advice and directives are easy to receive and don’t feel overwhelming!
Cassi Silveus
Evaluate your person’s current advance directives.
Find the holes and, if possible improve or update them.
If they were never created or can not be updated, do not worry.
What you learn inside this program will be more comprehensive than any advance directive I have ever read.
Identify your person’s goal of care.
Have a process for checking in if things change.
There are only 3 goals of care to choose from.
Your person’s overall goal of care will help you determine all future medical decisions. Goals can change overtime. I will teach you how to make decisions that fall in line with each goal of care.
Craft a plan for medical decision making.
Feel prepared and more in control. Learn the most common decisions you’ll face because of medical conditions due to dementia, aging, and when someone is very sick (we call this “critically ill”). You will learn the treatment options for these conditions so you can plan for what is best using their goal of care as a guide.
Develop communication skills to be a better advocate.
Know the questions you need to ask in certain situations.
Use language medical staff will understand.
You’ll learn WHY we do what we do.
Make better use of the time you have to spend with staff.
Nail down the tools you will use to advocate.
Learn about important services, resources, and documents to use so your person receives the type of care they would want.
Understand how to approach medical professionals to fill out a DNR/POLST form so your person’s goals of care are known and documented.
Become a confident decision maker.
This program helps you uncover your blind spots when it comes to speaking on someone else’s behalf inside the healthcare system.
By going through this process, when you are asked to make a medical decision, you will be able to speak up and choose with peace of mind.
What’s Next?…
Join Make Your Plan with Dr. Lamb Today
And gain lifetime access to…
8 Modules with what you need to know to become an informed, confident, significantly less stressed decision maker on behalf of your person.
A Framework to use when making any medical decision so you can follow a process and choose treatments you feel at peace with.
A physician taught deeper understanding of the conditions your person is at risk for with access to dozens of specific questions to ask your person’s healthcare team.
An organized, written Medical Decision Plan to use as a guide on behalf of your person so that you know the treatments you are choosing line up with your person’s goals of care.
Personalized Recorded Analysis of your Person’s Medical History from Dr. Lamb explaining your person’s biggest risks, so you can know what to spend time planning for right now, and what will be needed to continue to confidently advocate for them into the future.
” Do it! Just do it!…”
Do it! Just do it! If you put your plan off until your LOWD is taken to the ER or hospitalized it will be way more stressful having to make medical decisions that may or may not be in the best interest, or according to the wishes of your LOWD, having a plan in place will help you make those decisions.
Pamela
” I do feel more knowledgeable…”
I do feel more knowledgeable about medical conditions and treatments. Taking the course drove home the point that I most likely will have to make some decisions in the future. I’m sure I won’t remember most the details of all of the medical problems and treatments but having an overview and knowing that the videos will continue to be available is very helpful to me.
Kristy L.
Plain and Simple: Make Your Plan with Dr. Lamb Will Save you TIME and Stress and is OPEN for Enrollment
” A place to go look for information…”
I feel I have a place to go look for information and where to find the questions I should be aware of or asking when needed. It will make me a better decision maker once I make the time to work through all of it.
Carol H.
Plus You’ll be Backed by a Risk-Free 14-Day Guarantee
I totally believe in the power of what I have created for you inside this program and I believe in your ability to use it to change your life and be a better advocate for your person.
That’s why if for any reason you aren’t satisfied, just email me within 14 days of purchase and I’ll give you all of your money back.
Make Your Plan with Dr. Lamb is for you if…
You want to STOP stressing about what is to come. Preparing for what’s to come and having a plan is possible. Having this program to guide you and come back to when needed is going to help get that weight off of you, allowing you to spend your time and mental energy on yourself and your person.
You’re not afraid to do something different. Learning from an ER physician online means you are tapping into an expert’s knowledge to uncover the language, processes, and tools needed to advocate for your person directly from someone who makes these types of decisions with families on a daily basis.
You recognize there is no “perfect time,” and waiting is not an answer. You know things can change quickly for someone living with dementia. You are fully aware there is a huge difference between making decisions you’ve had time to consider vs choosing in “crisis mode”.
Only YOU can decide to commit to learning and planning on behalf of your person. For what it’s worth, everything you learn in the program you can use in your own life.
Ready to Make Your Plan?
FAQs
Each week a new Module will open up. At the end of the 8 weeks, you’ll have access to go back to any section and re-watch as many times as you want.
The cost of the program includes lifetime access. I know you are busy and may be interrupted. I want you to be able to log back in at any time and re-watch a video or look at the resources that go along with it as you need to.
Inside the course you can reply to the emails I send to you each week if you have questions or feedback about what you are learning. I will answer as best I can there via email. Who knows, maybe it will inspire me to add another video training into the program. In full transparency, if you ask me a question which requires a lot of back and forth communication, or I feel an actual conversation is needed because it is too specific to your unique situation, I may tell you I can not answer without us having a formal phone consultation which is a service I offer only to course clients.
Watching the lessons each week will be about an hour, no more than two. Implementing some of the action items may take up more of your time, and will vary depending on your person’s medical history, but will be well worth the effort. You’ll have lifetime access to the program so there is no rush to finish it within the first 8 weeks.
That is entirely up to you. The plan is for you, the decision maker. You can discuss it with family or your person if they are able and willing. Your person’s doctors should know their overall goal of care. You will likely have to tell them. They will not always ask. When decisions need to be made you can bring along your plan and use it to help you have a conversation with your person’s care team. The plan does not go inside your person’s medical record. It is not a legal document you have to file anywhere. It is for you to use to keep yourself organized and to make sure the treatments you are choosing line up with what your person would choose for themselves. It will help you advocate and know whether or not a treatment you are being offered is in line with your person’s goals.
Yes, absolutely. I have never read a Living Will or other healthcare directive which told me how to treat a patient in the ER. Advance directives are not a plan and simply are not enough. People rely on them too much. This is why what I am teaching you is needed. The Medical Decision Plan you create inside this program is in addition to your person’s advance directives. What you do inside this course is for you. You do not turn it into your person’s medical care team or their attorney. You use what you learn on their behalf when making decisions for them alone or with your family.
If you are your person’s legally declared medical decision maker (on a legal document such as a medical power of attorney form) it is up to you to make their healthcare choices. You can use what you learn here to support your decision making and explain to your family the WHY behind the decisions you are making. The same applies if your person did not declare someone as their decision maker and you have a legal right to make their decisions as their spouse/partner or a child. If you are part of a group of people deciding what to do on behalf of someone, you may not be able to make the final call, but this program will teach you to speak to the rationale behind what you are advocating for and will help you get your point across to your family and to the medical team.
This is common and normal. Do not expect the person living with dementia to discuss their future medical care. They may not be able to handle the complexity or the emotions of a conversation like this. I advise going at it in bite sized chunks and asking them one question at a time. You can make all of the decisions inside this program on their behalf speaking for them. You do not need to be able to discuss the decisions with them ahead of time in order to choose on their behalf.
Making medical decisions is hard, I know. I help people make tough choices every day. If it stresses you out now, it will be worse when you have to do it in real time, especially in the ER or the hospital. Take the time now to figure things out and you won’t regret it. Planning for the future does not just give you peace of mind. It also empowers you. It forces you to learn, which translates into the ability to make informed choices. As a result you feel more in control. As a bonus, the knowledge you gain can be used repeatedly for the rest of your life. Use it to help yourself in planning, or to advocate for other family, friends, or people in your community.
Yes! This is my passion. I love boiling things down into simple language that people can understand. I have to do this on a daily basis in the ER when people are under stress. One of my favorite things about what I do is the feeling I get when I realize the person is clear on what is going on and what our plan is. I put things into plain language while still teaching you words you will want to know so you can better communicate with medical professionals.
Nope, I am giving you what you need to know to be able to make the most common medical decisions you will be faced with plus a process to follow when asked to make a decision about any other medical situation. If you follow the process laid out in the course I am confident you will feel well prepared to make your person’s medical decisions using the plan you create and what you learn.
Yes! I have broken the course up into the sections I deliver to you for this reason. This is also why I recommend taking it week by week learning and implementing as you go. You can absolutely do this. I am sure you have had to make many hard decisions in your life and some under stress. Think back to those, they are not as easy and leave room for more second guessing. Not learning about what is likely to happen to your person and being left to decide on medical treatment options in crisis mode is going to be harder than taking action while going through this course.
When you enroll in the program you will be sent an email from Thinkific to sign up with a user name and password and then can immediately get started on Module 1.
Yes, absolutely. I have never read a Living Will or other healthcare directive which told me how to treat a patient in the ER (unless they were clearly dying). Advance directives are not a plan and simply are not enough. People rely on them too much. This is why what I am teaching you is needed. The Medical Decision Plan you create inside this program is in addition to your person’s advance directives. What you do inside this course is for you. You do not turn it into your person’s medical care team or their attorney. You use what you learn on their behalf when making decisions for them alone or with your family.
If you are your person’s legally declared medical decision maker (on a legal document such as a medical power of attorney form) it is up to you to make their healthcare choices. You can use what you learn here to support your decision making and explain to your family the WHY behind the decisions you are making. The same applies if your person did not declare someone as their decision maker and you have a legal right to make their decisions as their spouse/partner or a child. If you are part of a group of people deciding what to do on behalf of someone, you may not be able to make the final call, but this program will teach you to speak to the rationale behind what you are advocating for and will help you get your point across to your family and to the medical team.
This is common and normal. Do not expect the person living with dementia to discuss their future medical care. They may not be able to handle the complexity or the emotions of a conversation like this. I advise going at it in bite sized chunks and asking them one question at a time. You can make all of the decisions inside this program on their behalf speaking for them. You do not need to be able to discuss the decisions with them ahead of time in order to choose on their behalf.
Making medical decisions is hard, I know. I help people make tough choices every day. If it stresses you out now, it will be worse when you have to do it in real time, especially in the ER or the hospital. Take the time now to figure things out and you won’t regret it. Planning for the future does not just give you peace of mind. It also empowers you. It forces you to learn, which translates into the ability to make informed choices. As a result you feel more in control. As a bonus, the knowledge you gain can be used repeatedly for the rest of your life. Use it to help yourself in planning, or to advocate for other family, friends, or people in your community.
Yes! This is my passion. I love boiling things down into simple language that people can understand. I have to do this on a daily basis in the ER when people are under stress. One of my favorite things about what I do is the feeling I get when I realize the person is clear on what is going on and what our plan is. I put things into plain language while still teaching you words you will want to know so you can better communicate with medical professionals.
Nope, I am giving you what you need to know to be able to make the most common medical decisions you will be faced with plus a process to follow when asked to make a decision about any other medical situation. If you follow the process laid out in the course I am confident you will feel well prepared to make your person’s medical decisions using the plan you create and what you learn.
Yes! I have broken the course up into the sections I deliver to you for this reason. This is also why I recommend taking it week by week learning and implementing as you go. You can absolutely do this. I am sure you have had to make many hard decisions in your life and some under stress. Think back to those, they are not as easy and leave room for more second guessing. Not learning about what is likely to happen to your person and being left to decide on medical treatment options in crisis mode is going to be harder than taking action while going through this course.
When you enroll in the program you will be sent an email from Thinkific to sign up with a user name and password and then can immediately get started on Module 1.
Each week a new Module will open up. At the end of the 8 weeks, you’ll have access to go back to any section and re-watch as many times as you want.
The cost of the program includes lifetime access. I know you are busy and may be interrupted. I want you to be able to log back in at any time and re-watch a video or look at the resources that go along with it as you need to.
Inside the course you can reply to the emails I send to you each week if you have questions or feedback about what you are learning. I will answer as best I can there via email. Who knows, maybe it will inspire me to add another video training into the program. In full transparency, if you ask me a question which requires a lot of back and forth communication, or I feel an actual conversation is needed because it is too specific to your unique situation, I may tell you I can not answer without us having a formal phone consultation which is another service I offer.
Watching the lessons each week will be about an hour. Implementing some of the action items may take up more of your time, but will be well worth the effort. You’ll have lifetime access to the program so there is no rush to finish it within the first 8 weeks.
That is entirely up to you. The plan is for you, the decision maker. You can discuss it with family or your person if they are able and willing. Your person’s doctors should know their overall goal of care. You will likely have to tell them. They will not always ask. When decisions need to be made you can bring along your plan and use it to help you have a conversation with your person’s care team. The plan does not go inside your person’s medical record. It is not a legal document you have to file anywhere. It is for you to use to keep yourself organized and to make sure the treatments you are choosing line up with what your person would choose for themselves. It will help you advocate and know whether or not a treatment you are being offered is in line with your person’s goals.
Yes, absolutely. I have never read a Living Will or other healthcare directive which told me how to treat a patient in the ER. Advance directives are not a plan and simply are not enough. People rely on them too much. This is why what I am teaching you is needed. The Medical Decision Plan you create inside this program is in addition to your person’s advance directives. What you do inside this course is for you. You do not turn it into your person’s medical care team or their attorney. You use what you learn on their behalf when making decisions for them alone or with your family.
If you are your person’s legally declared medical decision maker (on a legal document such as a medical power of attorney form) it is up to you to make their healthcare choices. You can use what you learn here to support your decision making and explain to your family the WHY behind the decisions you are making. The same applies if your person did not declare someone as their decision maker and you have a legal right to make their decisions as their spouse/partner or a child. If you are part of a group of people deciding what to do on behalf of someone, you may not be able to make the final call, but this program will teach you to speak to the rationale behind what you are advocating for and will help you get your point across to your family and to the medical team.
This is common and normal. Do not expect the person living with dementia to discuss their future medical care. They may not be able to handle the complexity or the emotions of a conversation like this. I advise going at it in bite sized chunks and asking them one question at a time. You can make all of the decisions inside this program on their behalf speaking for them. You do not need to be able to discuss the decisions with them ahead of time in order to choose on their behalf.
Making medical decisions is hard, I know. I help people make tough choices every day. If it stresses you out now, it will be worse when you have to do it in real time, especially in the ER or the hospital. Take the time now to figure things out and you won’t regret it. Planning for the future does not just give you peace of mind. It also empowers you. It forces you to learn, which translates into the ability to make informed choices. As a result you feel more in control. As a bonus, the knowledge you gain can be used repeatedly for the rest of your life. Use it to help yourself in planning, or to advocate for other family, friends, or people in your community.
Yes! This is my passion. I love boiling things down into simple language that people can understand. I have to do this on a daily basis in the ER when people are under stress. One of my favorite things about what I do is the feeling I get when I realize the person is clear on what is going on and what our plan is. I put things into plain language while still teaching you words you will want to know so you can better communicate with medical professionals.
Nope, I am giving you what you need to know to be able to make the most common medical decisions you will be faced with plus a process to follow when asked to make a decision about any other medical situation. If you follow the process laid out in the course I am confident you will feel well prepared to make your person’s medical decisions using the plan you create and what you learn.
Yes! I have broken the course up into the sections I deliver to you for this reason. This is also why I recommend taking it week by week learning and implementing as you go. You can absolutely do this. I am sure you have had to make many hard decisions in your life and some under stress. Think back to those, they are not as easy and leave room for more second guessing. Not learning about what is likely to happen to your person and being left to decide on medical treatment options in crisis mode is going to be harder than taking action while going through this course.
When you enroll in the program you will be sent an email from Thinkific to sign up with a user name and password and then can immediately get started on Module 1.
Disclaimer:
By participating in this program, you understand that the Company is a licensed physician who is working in this role as a coach and educator.
This is for informational and educational purposes only. BLambMD LLC does not offer medical advice. Any content accessed through BLambMD LLC programs, courses, or services is for informational purposes only and is not intended to cover or otherwise be used as a substitute or supplement for the diagnosis of or treatment of any medical condition.