Game Plan A New Approach to Health and Aging Decisions

Creating your Game Plan gives you structure and space to define your wishes and determine your health and medical priorities. It ensures you are prepared and confident while reducing family conflict when life changes.

Aging unfolds gradually. Health shifts. Independence changes. Decisions grow more complex over time.

End of life documents were designed for final moments. They do not guide the long middle. The long middle brings changing health, evolving abilities, and decisions that are rarely straightforward.

What most people need is not more paperwork. They need a way to use their priorities to guide decisions as life unfolds.

If you are beginning to think about the years ahead, this is a good time to talk.

End-Of-Life Documents Are Not Enough

We don’t just get sick and die quickly anymore.

In earlier generations, serious illness often moved quickly and the window for decisions was short. Today, aging unfolds over years. Many people navigate health changes, shifts in independence, and choices that are not always straightforward.

Advance Directives still matter. But they were designed for final moments. They do not guide the long middle.

What many people need is not more paperwork. It is a way to use their priorities to guide decisions as life unfolds.

Why Many People Still Feel Uncertain

Most people who begin this work have done the responsible things.
They have legal documents.
They have named decision makers.
They have had conversations.

And yet something still feels unfinished.

That feeling is often quiet and difficult to explain, but it is real.
Aging unfolds gradually. The long middle brings changing health, shifting
abilities, and decisions that are not clearly right or wrong.

Documents cannot guide those moments. Shared understanding can.

The Game Plan creates that shared understanding.

Why Create a Game Plan?

Clarity about your priorities
Greater control during an unpredictable time
Confidence that everyone knows your priorities
Less family conflict and confusion
Peace of mind for you and your loved ones

Conversation. Clarity. Confidence.

The work begins with listening.

Together, we clarify your values, your concerns, and the life you want to preserve.

From there, we create a written Game Plan that reflects what matters most and supports future decisions.

The process typically unfolds over four guided conversations. Each builds on the last, creating clarity step by step.

The final meeting brings family into the conversation, so your Game Plan is shared and understood by those who may one day support you.

Meet Adele

Adele Simons grew up in Nashville and graduated from Emory University before completing her master’s degree in Conflict Management at Lipscomb University in 2018. Her work took a personal turn as she watched her own parents age and realized how little guidance traditional end-of-life documents offered when real decisions needed to be made.

Drawing on her conflict-management training and her commitment to reducing family strain, she created The Game Plan, a simple four-meeting process that gives people a way to shape their lives long before end-of-life paperwork is relevant.

At the heart of her work is a belief that the right conversations can profoundly improve how we live and how we navigate the later years with clarity and confidence.

Adele helped me develop my vision for life going forward and get it down on paper… With Adele you get a highly personal sorting through of what you think and feel. Your Gameplan clarifies how you wish to live, die and be remembered… I am so grateful for this experience with her and can not recommend her highly enough.

Charlotte M.

Curious About Creating A Game Plan?

If you are beginning to think about the years ahead and sense something still feels unfinished, a conversation can be a helpful place to begin.

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A Guided Process for Building Your Game Plan

Adele’s work begins with listening. Drawing on her background in conflict management, she guides individuals through thoughtful conversations about health, aging, and care—creating space for clarity without pressure.

The Game Plan unfolds over four guided conversations. Each one builds on the last, helping you name what matters most, document it clearly, and share it with the people you trust.

Conversation One

Clarifying your values, priorities, and concerns about health and aging

Conversation Two

Exploring medical and life scenarios you may face, and what matters most within them

Conversation Three

Shaping a written Game Plan that reflects your priorities and supports good decision making

Conversation Four

A facilitated family conversation to share your Game Plan and create shared understanding

Build a Clear Game Plan for Health and Aging

Guided conversations that help individuals and families clarify care priorities, reduce future conflict, and move forward with confidence—before a crisis forces decisions.

Why Create a Game Plan?

A Game Plan gives you a clear framework for navigating aging—before decisions get forced by circumstances.

Structure

A guided process that brings long-avoided conversations to completion

Clarity

A clear framework that replaces uncertainty with grounded decision-making

Agency

A way to decide how you want to live as you age—before circumstances decide for you

Family Relief

Less confusion, guilt, and conflict for the people you trust

Peace of Mind

Confidence that the hardest conversations are already behind you

Build Your Game Plan with Adele Simons

Adele Simons is a conflict-management professional who helps individuals and families talk through the realities of aging—before decisions get forced by a crisis.

Through a guided, four-conversation process, she helps you clarify what matters most, document it in a clear Game Plan, and share it with the people you trust.

The result is clarity, confidence, and less strain for families as life begins to change.

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