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title: Why MyDirectives | MyDirectives.care
description: Manage and share your advance directive securely with MyDirectives, ensuring your healthcare decisions are accessible when they matter most.
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# Why MyDirectives

Your healthcare decisions are personal. Making sure they're protected and available when and where they're needed shouldn't be complicated.

MyDirectives helps you create, securely store, manage, and share your advance care planning documents in one place. And because your healthcare decisions may be needed when you least expect it, MyDirectives is designed to help make your advance directive available to the people caring for you.

Learn more about MyDirectives and how we help keep your healthcare decisions secure, accessible, and connected to your care.

 

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#### Our Story

Learn why MyDirectives was created and how we’ve worked to make advance care planning easier and more accessible for individuals, families, and healthcare providers.

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#### Privacy & Security

Your advance directive contains some of your most personal information. Learn how MyDirectives protects your information and puts you in control of how it’s stored and shared.

[Learn More](https://mydirectives.care/why-mydirectives/privacy-security?hsLang=en)

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#### Available When It Matters

Creating an advance directive is only part of the process. It also needs to be available when and where it’s needed. Learn how MyDirectives helps connect your healthcare decisions to the people caring for you.

[Learn More](https://mydirectives.care/why-mydirectives/available-when-it-matters?hsLang=en)

## Ready to make your healthcare decisions known?

###### Create a free MyDirectives account. 

 Create an advance directive or securely store and manage advance care planning documents you already have. 

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