Five Wishes Advance Care Planning Document – Now Free

Aging with Dignity has spent nearly 25 years helping families have discussions about what their loved ones would want if faced with a serious or life-threatening illness. Their Five Wishes is America's most popular and easy-to-understand and use advance care planning program. Because of the national emergency, Aging with Dignity has decided to take the unprecedented step of making the Five Wishes document available online to individuals at no cost.  Use it for yourself.  Use it for your parents, spouse, siblings, adult children, extended family, and friends.  Just use it! With life coming to a near standstill in America, it’s time to have these important conversations with the people who mean the most to you. To ask them about the kind of medical care they want or don't want in times of serious illness.  If you haven't had those conversations yet, now is the time. No matter how you are affected, you have a chance now to be prepared in case you or your loved ones face serious illness.  So get a Five Wishes and seek out the people who matter most to you, and start with the following messages:  •    There's been something on my mind and now is a good time to bring it up•    You matter to me and I care about you•    You can count on me to be there for you•    I want to do the right things for you when you need them the most•    I don't know your wishes so please tel...
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