About DNR Orders
Through the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, a booklet introducing Do-Not-Resuscitate orders and CPR is available. Also contact them for an advance directive booklet.

Advance Directives
From your About.com Guide to the Legal Industry, an article summarizing advance directives and the "Five Wishes" program.

Aging With Dignity
The Five Wishes advance directive document helps you express how you want to be treated if you are seriously ill and cannot speak for yourself. A video is available through this site highlighting the importance of advance care planning.

Organization and Community Advance Care Planning Courses
Do you wish to facilitate advance care planning in your community? "Respecting Choices," is a program developed at Gundersen Lutheran in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Facilitator trainings are being held across the US.

Caring Conversations
A workbook outlining a process to help facilitate conversations about advance care planning, and advance directives.

Elder Law Resources
From the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys comes an Elder Law Resource listing.

Implementing End-of-Life Options Across Settings
How one state developed a form and a program to ensure that end of life orders are implemented across treatment and care settings.

Kitchen Table Discussions Best of the Net
Allina Health Foundation's highly effective an innovative program sending social workers into the homes of people in home care to discuss end-of-life decisions and care.

Partnership for Caring
State-specific advance directive documents.

Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment
An Oregon program directing medical professionals to provide/or not provide treatment as ordered.

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