Advance Directives
Aging with Dignity (Five Wishes)
The Aging with Dignity website contains the Five Wishes, an advance directive document addressing the dying person’s holistic needs. Available in English and Spanish.
Allow Natural Death
The Hospice Patients Alliance supports the creation of a new end of life care designation (A.N.D.) which is designed to increase the number of terminally ill patients who are allowed a death with dignity.
Caring Connections
Caring Connections provides free resources and information to help people make informed decisions about end-of-life care and services before a crisis, including advance care planning, caregiving, pain, financial issues, hospice and palliative care and grief and loss.
Caring Conversations - Making Your Wishes Known for End-of-Life Care - Caring Conversations is a consumer education initiative that helps individuals and their families share meaningful conversation while making practical preparations for end-of-life decisions.
Ethical Wills
An ethical will is a way to preserve values, beliefs, lessons learned from life, dreams, and hopes for future generations. To be completed in addition to legal will and advance directives.

Last Updated: 07/21/09