FIVE WISHES: A LIVING WILL
http://www.agingwithdignity.org/five-wishes.php
Five Wishes lets your family and doctors know:
- Who you want to make health care decisions for you when you can't make
them.
- The kind of medical treatment you want or don't want.
- How comfortable you want to be.
- How you want people to treat you.
- What you want your loved ones to know.
Five Wishes is changing the way America talks about and plans for care at
the end of life. More than 14 million copies of Five Wishes are in
circulation across the nation, distributed by more than 23,000
organizations. Five Wishes meets the legal requirements in 42 states and is
useful in all 50.
Five Wishes has become America’s most popular living will because it is
written in everyday language and helps start and structure important
conversations about care in times of serious illness.
Five Wishes was introduced in 1997 and originally distributed with support
from a grant by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation's largest
philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care. With assistance
from the United Health Foundation, Five Wishes is now available in 26
languages...