Put It In Writing: Key Links

Consumer Tools - Toolkits/Workbooks for Health Care Advance Planning

• The American Bar Association has developed a variety of self-help worksheets, suggestions and resources that prompt a continuing conversation about values, priorities, the meaning of one's life, quality of life and what's important.
• The Center for Practical Bioethics' Caring Conversations workbook was designed to help individuals and families communicate with each other about their healthcare preferences and contains advance directive documents. These forms are valid in every state when notarized and signed by two witnesses.

Advance Directive Samples

• Aging with Dignity's Five Wishes document is an example of an easy to read and use advance directive, a template for recording one's medical treatment and preferences.
• The Institute for Healthcare Advancement has made downloadable versions of the California Advance Health Care Directive available in several languages including Spanish and Chinese.

National Organizations

• Alzheimer's Association Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregiver Center
• American Academy of Family Physicians
• American College of Physicians
• American Health Information Management Association/myPHR site
• American Nurses Association
• American Organization of Nurse Executives
• Center to Advance Palliative Care
• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
• Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy

State Links

Alabama Hospital Association

California Hospital Association

Colorado Hospital Association

Connecticut Hospital Association

Louisiana Hospital Association

Maine Hospital Association

New Hampshire Hospital Association

Ohio Hospital Association

The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania

• Guide: Decide for Yourself: A Guide to Advance Directives
• Resource Page: Consumer Information

Texas Hospital Association

Washington State Hospital Association

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