Motivational Interview Intervention to Help Patients Formulate Their Goals for Medical Care in the Emergency Department

Inclusion Criteria

• •≥65 years of age
• •English-speaking
• •Capacity to consent
• •AND ≥1 Serious illness (New York Heart Association stage 3 or 4 heart failure, oxygen-dependent chronic obstructive lung disease, chronic kidney disease on dialysis, and metastatic cancer.) OR determined by the emergency department provider that the patient has a high likelihood of death in the next 12 months ("I would not be surprised if this patient died in the next 12 months.").