- Advance Directives/Living Wills
- Documents signed by a competent person giving direction to health care providers about treatment choices in certain circumstances. - Aging With Dignity
- Offers information on discussing and coping with serious illness plus legal tools such as the Five Wishes living will that lets adults of all ages plan how they want to be cared for in case they become seriously ill. - Consumer's Tool Kit for Health Care Advance Planning
- Helpful tips on health care advance directives (such as living wills) from the American Bar Association. - familydoctor.org: Advanced Directives and Do Not Resuscitate Orders
- Includes definitions of advance directives, living wills, and other documents. - Living Will and Values History Project
- Attempts to collate, analyse and apply research on living wills (also known as advance directives). Includes a resource base as well as its own document. - U.S. Living Will Registry
- Electronically stores advance directives (living wills) and makes them available directly to hospitals by telephone. Also includes printable advance directive forms. - Wikipedia: Living Will
- Provides information about living wills, the health care proxy also known as an advance health directive. The purpose of a living will is to appoint an individual to direct health care decisions.
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