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Specialized Resources for Health Care Decisions Day
Websites / Resources- Advance
Care Planning — Recent Books for Consumers
- Aging with Dignity.
Five Wishes - Five Wishes is an advance directive created by Aging with Dignity, a non-profit organization whose mission is to help older adults “plan and receive the care (they) deserve.”
- AARP (American
Association of Retired Persons).
Talking about Your Final Wishes - A discussion of the types of decisions you should consider: where do you want to die, what kind of medical treatment do you want, what kind of medical treatment do you not want, where do you want to be buried. The website emphasizes making your wishes clear to your family and your doctor.
- District of Columbia
Hospital Association
Combined Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care and Living Will for use in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.
Up-to-date bibliographies on the following topics are drawn from our ETHXWeb database:
- Advance Directives (available full text online)
- Palliative Care
- Pain Management
- Health decisions for adolescents and children (youth)
- Advance Directives relating to the elderly and/or those with dementia
Additional quickbibs are available at http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/nrc/quickbibsbio.htm. Simply click on a topic and the bibliography will be generated.
Reference Help
- Telephone: 1-888-BIO-ETHX
- Email bioethics@georgetown.edu
To read more about advance directives and advance health care planning from a variety of sources including the ethics literature, law journals, reports, etc. please visit our free ETHXWeb Database at http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/databases/ETHXWeb/ethx.htm or http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/databases/ETHXWeb/ethxbool.htm
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