Advance Directives

The Five Wishes document helps you express how you want to be treated if you are seriously ill and unable to speak for yourself. It looks to all of a person's needs: medical, personal, emotional and spiritual. Five Wishes encourages discussing your wishes with your family and physician.

Five Wishes lets your family and doctors know:

• Which person you want to make health care decisions for you when you can't make them
• The kind of medical treatment you want or don't want
• How comfortable you want to be
• How you want people to treat you
• What you want your loved ones to know

Find out more at the Aging with Dignity site.