Recommended Web Sites

Advance Directives - This information is from FamilyDoctor.org.

Cancer and Advanced Directives - The National Cancer Institute has created this fact sheet for people with cancer.

Living Wills and Advance Directives - The Mayo Clinic gives offers this review of your options for treatment at the end of life.

Advance Care Planning - The American Medical Association has created this information.

Advance Directives - The Caring Connections site is a national nonprofit organization that partners individuals and organizations in a powerful collaboration to improve how people die in our society.

Advance Directives/Living Wills - The University of Michigan Health System offers this advice about preparing your advance directives.

Consumer’s Tool Kit for Health Care Advance Planning - This Tool Kit from the American Bar Association, contains a variety of self-help worksheets, suggestions, and resources. There are 10 Tools in all, each clearly labeled and user-friendly.

Duty of Medical Personnel to Honor Your Directives - The Plain English Law Center explains the circumstances under which your directives might not be followed.

Elder Care At Home: Advanced Directives - The Foundation for Health in Aging explains why it is helpful to make arrangements well in advance of need.

End of Life Issues - AARP has created these easy-to-read explanations of living wills, advance directives, hospice services, and more.

Five Wishes - Five Wishes is a document that 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.

Health Care Agents: Appointing One and Being One - The Hospice and Palliative Care Organization offers this advice.

How Health Care Directives Work - The Plain English Law Center provides this information about health care directives.

Making Medical Decisions for a Loved One at the End of Life - The American College of Physicians has created this information.

MEDLINEPlus: Advance Directives - The librarians at the National Library of Medicine have assembled this list of quality sites.

MEDLINEPlus: Death and Dying - This section from the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINEplus, provides links to quality resources on the Internet.

Psychiatric Advance Directives - Sometimes you need directives for things that happen when you are not competant to make the right judgement, not just at the end of life.

Put It In Writing - The American Hospital Association offers this booklet of information on advanced directives and living wills.

State-Specific Advance Directive Forms - The Partnership for Caring posts state-specific advance directives forms at this site.

The U.S. Living Will Registry - The U.S. Living Will Registry electronically stores advance directives and makes them available to physicians across the country by telephone and Internet.

What You Can Cover in Your Health Care Directive - The Plain English Law Center lists the possible topics to be discussed in advanced health care directives.

The Will to Live Project - This project promotes a living will that protects life, read the instructions before you download a particular state file.