Do you care for patients or clients who are temporarily or permanently unable to communicate via speech or writing?

Are you required to communicate with patients or clients who may not speak or write your language?

Is there someone in your life who has lost the ability to speak and write?

Crucial Communications "Point to Communicate" booklets address these needs.

When someone loses the ability to speak and write due to illness, injury, disease, or aging, they also lose the ability to communicate basic needs, wants, and desires. Ability to convey pain levels and locations, emotional needs, information about emergency contacts, home and ambulatory issues, reactions to medicines, too cold, too hot, even "I need a hug", are all gone.

Both for humanitarian reasons, and because of laws like the National Joint Committee's Patient's Communication Bill of Rights and the Medicare Patient Bill of Rights, Crucial Communications has developed a series of "Point to Communicate" booklets that allow these patients and clients to communicate by pointing to pictures that depict common situations. Below each picture is a matching phrase.

With Point to Communicate booklets, individuals facing communication challenges can convey their basic needs to family, friends, and health care providers. There are variants for Hospitals, Home Health, and Nursing Homes. This easy to use communication tool allows communication-compromised individuals to take an active role in health and daily care related decisions.