Advance Directives

Sources of information

• Maryland Attorney General:
  • Advance Directives Information
  • Maryland Advance Directive document (Planning for Future Health Care Decisions)
• Caring Conversations from the Center for Practical Bioethics
• Aging With Dignity: The Five Wishes document
• Montgomery County Coalition on End-of-Life Care:
  • Choice of Health Care Agent
  • Resources for Advance Planning for Healthcare Decision-Making
• Caring Connections

Research

• New England Journal of Medicine
  April 1, 2010 article: "Patients who had prepared advance directives received care that was strongly associated with their preferences."

Related Articles

• Washington Jewish Week: The Final Passage
  (includes quotes from Rabbi Gary Fink, Montgomery Hospice chaplain)
• Bob Levey column from The Beacon, October 2008   "Now is a good time to raise the subject": Montgomery Hospice suggestions on how to hold "The Conversation"
  (The Beacon.)

Maryland Advance Care Directives - translated
(The Montgomery County Coalition on End-of-Life Care)

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DNR

Maryland Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) and Medical Care Order: DNR form (note: large PDF document)