Kokua Mau Multilingual Resources Page
Welcome to all of Kōkua Mau’s multilingual resource materials in one place.
Click on the language link for all translated materials in that language.
- CHINESE simplified
- CHINESE traditional
- CHUUKESE (added 2023)
- ILOCANO
- JAPANESE
- KOREAN
- MARSHALLESE
- OLELO HAWAII-NIIHAU (added Jan 2025)
- SAMOAN (added Sept 2024)
- SPANISH
- TAGALOG
- TONGAN
- VIETNAMESE
Kōkua Mau Multilingual Key Advance Care Planning Materials
Click on the specific document’s ‘multilingual’ link to find all multilingual resources currently available for this specific document.
The multilingual resources are intended as tools to help members of our community with limited English proficiency. As is common with such complicated issues, these documents do not replace a one-on-one conversation, sometimes with the help of an interpreter, to walk people through the decisions they have to make for themselves or their loved ones.
Advance Directive
- Multilingual Hawaii Advance Health Care Directive
- Multilingual Hawaii Advance Directive Explanatory Information Sheet
POLST for Hawai‘i
- Multilingual POLST Form for Hawai‘i
- Multilingual Consumer Guide to POLST
In-depth Resources
- Multilingual Questions about CPR
- Multilingual Tube Feeding Information Sheet
Multilingual Key Advance Care Planning Materials in 13 languages (PDF file with list)
Resources for Interpreters
Multilingual Glossaries for Interpreting for Palliative Care
The glossaries are intended to assist interpreters translating issues about serious illness care, including palliative care and hospice care, in various languages. They are provided here as a free resource to assist interpreters and bi-lingual workers in our communities.
A collaboration between Cindy Roat and Kōkua Mau, the glossaries are available here as PDF files from English into:
- Chinese simplified Bilingual Glossary of Palliative Care Terms
- Chinese traditional Bilingual Glossary of Palliative Care Terms
- Chuukese Bilingual Glossary of Palliative Care Terms
- Ilocano Bilingual Glossary of Palliative Care Term
- Japanese Bilingual Glossary of Palliative Care Terms
- Korean Bilingual Glossary of Palliative Care Terms
- Kosraean Bilingual Glossary of Palliative Care Terms
- Marshallese Bilingual Glossary of Palliative Care Terms
- Pohnpeian Bilingual Glossary of Palliative Care Terms
- Spanish Bilingual Glossary of Palliative Care Terms
- Tagalog Bilingual Glossary of Palliative Care Terms
- Vietnamese Bilingual Glossary of Palliative Care Terms
Kōkua Mau is a statewide coalition in Hawaiʻi to improve care for those with serious illness. Our website is a resource that has non-biased, accurate Information on advanced care planning, advance directives, POLST and options for serious illness care including palliative care and hospice care.
We thank the collaborative effort of our sponsors that made this translation project possible.
Executive Office on Aging (EOA)
Hawaii Health Systems Corporation (HHSC)
Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA)
Kaiser Permanente in Hawaii
University Health Alliance (UHA)