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Quick Links: Resources on Advance Directives
Websites
/ Resources
- Advance
Care Planning — Recent Books for Consumers
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- 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.”
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- 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.
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- 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.
Caring Connections — State-specific advance directives
Obtain
copies of Advance
Directive forms for your state from the database at
Caring Connections
QuickBibs
Up-to-date
bibliographies on the following topics are drawn from our
ETHXWeb database:
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
Database
Resources
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 ETHXWeb Database Advanced Search interface at
http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/databases/ETHXWeb/ethx.htm
- Enter
20.5.4 (our classification number for advance directives)
in the Keyword/General Subject Box and limit your search
as you wish using the drop down menus.
or, you may use the Boolean Search interface at http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/databases/ETHXWeb/ethxbool.htm
- Enter 20.5.4 (our classification number for advance
directives) in the search box and combine it using the
AND operator with any other topic you have in mind,
e.g., for older persons or persons with dementia including
Alzheimer’s Disease, your search strategy could
be: 20.5.4 and (Alzheimer+ or dement+ or 9.5.2)
- The + is a truncation symbol and can be used to represent
any number of letters
Last updated: November 2008
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