Five Wishes Document www.agingwithdignity.org/5wishes.html An Aging with Dignity resource. The Five Wishes document helps you express how you want to be treated if you are seriously ill and unable to speak for yourself. It is unique among all other living will and health agent forms because it looks to all of a person's needs: medical, personal, emotional and spiritual. Five Wishes also encourages discussing your wishes with your family and physician.
Five Wishes lets your family and doctors know:
1.Which person you want to make health care decisions for you when you can't make them.
2. The kind of medical treatment you want or don't want.
3. How comfortable you want to be.
4. How you want people to treat you.
5. What you want your loved ones to know.
The document is valid in all but 15 states. The 15 that Five Wishes is not legally valid in, either require a specific state form or that the person completing an advance directive be read a mandatory notice or "warning." Residents of these states can still use Five Wishes to put their wishes in writing and communicate their wishes with their family and physician. Most health care professionals understand they have a duty to listen to the wishes of their patients no matter how they are expressed.
Funerals.org www.funerals.org This is a national funeral consumer organization with state chapters. Contact your local state chapter for advice and directions related to funeral arrangements and your rights by clicking on Directory of Nonprofit Funeral Consumer Groups when visiting their home page.
Growth House www.GrowthHouse.org This award-winning web site is your international gateway to resources for life-threatening illness and end of life care. Our primary mission is to improve the quality of compassionate care for people who are dying through public education and global professional collaboration.
Hospice Patients Alliance www.hospicepatients.org HPA promotes quality hospice services whether a patient is enrolled in a licensed hospice or not, whether residing at home or in a facility. HPA protects the rights of patients, their families and caregivers, the bereaved and staff by providing information about the standards of care governing the health care provided, the services required to be provided by law, standard industry practices and how to obtain the very best hospice care available.
LastActs.org www.lastacts.org Last Acts is a call-to-action campaign to improve care at the end of life. Our goals are to bring death related issues out in the open and help individuals and organizations pursue better ways to care for the dying. We believe in palliative care, which focuses on ways to ease pain and make life better for people who are dying and their loved ones. Palliative care means taking care of the whole person--body, mind, spirit--heart and soul. It looks at death and dying as something natural and personal. The goal of palliative care is to provide the best quality of life till the very end of life.
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization www.nhpco.org Mission & Vision, To create an America where every individual can value the experience of the end of life. Mission to advance the art and science of end-of-life care.
On Our Own Terms www.pbs.org/wnet/onourownterms Across the country, local coalitions are forming to improve end-of-care in their communities in conjunction with the PBS series ON OUR OWN TERMS: Moyers on Dying. Filled with honesty, courage and humor, the series breaks through the culture of denial to wrestle with how we can die better in America
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