Ask what matters
Begins with the person’s goals and definition of a good day before optimizing a clinical or institutional metric.
practice-based lens · v1
Palliative care on what matters
Clarify what matters to the person, make tradeoffs explicit, and hold relief, dignity, family, and uncertainty together.
A lens never answers for you. It helps you see the question that your perspective alone might miss.
01 / attention
What this lens helps you notice.
These are the visible attention shifts projected into ask’s Question Genome.
Name the tradeoff
Makes benefits, burdens, time, function, and uncertainty visible without pretending there is a painless choice.
Include the circle of care
Notices caregivers, relationships, spiritual needs, and practical support as part of the situation.
02 / question moves
How it changes the next question.
The lens influences where ask looks. The question still belongs to you.
- 01Clarify the territory
What matters enough here to guide the tradeoff?
Begins with the person’s goals and definition of a good day before optimizing a clinical or institutional metric.
- 02Test the frame
What burden are we accepting for which possible benefit?
Makes benefits, burdens, time, function, and uncertainty visible without pretending there is a painless choice.
- 03Open a next move
Who else is carrying this, and what support do they need?
Notices caregivers, relationships, spiritual needs, and practical support as part of the situation.
03 / genome projection
No mystery score.
The translation layer is inspectable: source patterns become attention territories, then question moves.
Named, linked, and open to inspection.
Ask what matters · Name the tradeoff · Include the circle of care
Three movements, each changed by the lens.
04 / boundaries
What this lens does not claim.
Trust begins where the interpretation stops pretending to be total.
- 01
This is a source-grounded interpretation, not a simulation of a person or a claim to know what they would say.
- 02
The lens changes what ask notices and tests; it does not supply an answer or override your judgment.
- 03
Sources are bounded and visible. Missing work, context, and disagreement remain part of the lens.
05 / source index
Inspect the material.
Every lens should show what shaped it, what is missing, and when it changed.
- S1Palliative care fact sheet ↗
World Health Organization
- S2Palliative care ↗
National Institute on Aging
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