Advance Directives

About Dialysis and Advance Directives -- Information and links http://www.kidney.org/atoz/atozItem.cfm?id=21

Sites for information and resources on Advance Directives -- The highly recommended Five Wishes document is found at http://www.agingwithdignity.org/5wishes.html

The Center for Practical Bioethics walks you thorough the care planning process with its "Caring Conversations" (English or Spanish) -- http://www.practicalbioethics.org/ and http://www.practicalbioethics.org/mbc-cc.htm.

AARP has information on its web site at http://www.aarp.org/ and http://www.aarp.org/families/. See http://www.elderhope.com/EthicsandLaw.shtml for other links.

Legal information re Living Wills/Advance Directives for individual states can be found at

http://www.medlawplus.com/library/legal/livingwillform.htm (one does not have to pay for Living Will/Advance Directives offered by this site - get them free at other resources.)

Also see the American Bar Association's Commission on Law and Aging at http://www.abanet.org/aging and http://www.abanet.org/aging/toolkit/home.html.

State specific advance directive forms are available at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization web site, http://www.caringinfo.org. Other state specific forms and information are available as follows:

Alaska

http://www.caringinfo.org/files/public/Alaska.pdf

Form and law -- http://www.alsc-law.org/forms/livingwill.pdf

http://www.akrepublicans.org/weyhrauch/directiveform/weyh2004102001i.php

Idaho

http://www.caringinfo.org/files/public/Idaho.pdf

Living will form only (not advance directive) – http://www.idahoptv.org/dying/docs/livingwill.html

http://www.abetterwaycoalition.org