Seniors Resources and Information
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Advance Directives - From the Tennessee Government Website
You can use these documents to let your family and doctor know your decisions for health care if you become unable to decide for yourself. You can appoint someone you know and trust as your health care decision maker to ensure that your choice or decision is honored.
Download as PDF files to print and photocopy:
Appointment of Health Care Agent Form
Physician Order for Scope of Treatment (POST)
Health Care Decision Act of 2004
Visit The Website To Read:
Rules and Regulations for Health Care Facilities
Frequently Asked Questions About Advance Directives
American Geriatrics Society (AGS) Foundation for Health in Aging Web-based Resource for Patients and their Clinicians
Aging in the Know: Your Gateway to Health and Aging Resources on the Web (www.healthinaging.org/agingintheknow).
The Assisted Living Workgroup Report to the Senate Special Committee on Aging
Caring Connections
Caring Connections, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is a national consumer engagement initiative to improve care at the end of life, supported by a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Caring Connections has implemented It's About How You LIVE, a national community engagement campaign encouraging consumers to make informed decisions about end-of-life care and services. The goal of the LIVE campaign is to provide a unified message across the country that motivates people to take action to improve end-of-life care for themselves, their loved ones, and their communities.
The central message of the LIVE campaign is to encourage people to:
Learn about options for end-of-life services and care
Implement plans to ensure wishes are honored
Voice decisions to family, friends and health care providers
Engage in personal or community efforts to improve end-of-life care
Caring Conversations
Excellent materials that help family members reflect on how they have lived, what they want their last days to be like, and how to have caring conversations with one another about these topics.
The Caring Connections site contains a wealth of resources, including advance directives for all 50 states.Center for Practical Bioethics raises and responds to ethical issues in health and healthcare.
http://www.practicalbioethics.org/
National Institutes of Health
Senior Health is an excellent reliable site for health info
North Carolina Division of Aging
Good graphics for community presentation; lots of links for information