Paperwork: AHCD, Legal & Healthcare Choices
Online Resources
A simple, trustworthy, and comprehensive place to turn for basic logistical information on end of life and death. They’ve sifted through the hundreds of websites, resources and books so you don’t have to.
GYST is an online service to help get your affairs into order one step at a time, starting with your will, living will/advance directive, and life insurance. Also provides links to lawyers who deal with probate, wills, and advance care planning.
Learn more about the POLST form and how and when it should be used; find your state’s POLST program.
Select your state from a menu and download the free advance directive forms for you to use. You’ll find instructions on how to fill out the forms.
Create emergency and critical and advance care plans for your family and doctors as well as share them with key caregivers. Add as much detail as you want, including video responses, and update online if you change your mind.
Download the free Conversation Starter Kit, available in several languages, and use it to have a conversation with your loved ones about what kind of care you do, and don’t want.
Advance Directive for Dementia
How much medical care would you want if you had Alzheimer’s disease or another type of dementia? This downloadable form allows you to pick your level of care for the different stages of dementia.
How much do you want to know about your prognosis? This document helps clarify your wishes to your clinical team
With dementia, more is needed than a boilerplate advance directive
PAD: Psychiatric Advance Directives
A legal document written by a currently competent person who lives with a mental illness. A PAD allows a person to be prepared if a mental health crisis prevents them from being able to make decisions.