Resources

Advanced Directives: What kind of medical care would you want if you were too ill or hurt to express your wishes? Advance directives are legal documents that allow you to spell out your decisions about end-of-life care ahead of time. They give you a way to tell your wishes to family, friends, and health care professionals and to avoid confusion later on.

Caring Connections, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is a national consumer and community engagement initiative to improve care at the end of life. Since 2004 Caring Connections has provided more than 1.7 million advance directives to individuals free of charge. Caring Connections:

• Provides free resources and information to help people make decisions about end-of-life care and services before a crisis.
• Brings together community, state and national partners working to improve end-of-life care through a national campaign called It's About How You LIVE.

Compassion and Choices: For over thirty years we have reduced people’s suffering and given them some control in their final days – even when injury or illness takes their voice. We are experts in what it takes to die well.