Following are links to various other forms & explanations for health care decision-making or health care agent-appointment. These links are provided for illustrative purposes only. Use them in your own discretion and with the advice of a qualified professional.

FORMS & EXPLANATIONS FROM OTHER ORGANIZATIONS:

• Aging with Dignity:

• "Finding Peace of Mind through Practical Five Wishes Document", by Paul Malley.
• "Five Wishes" Advance Care Directive:
  
• "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 is unique among all other living will and health agent forms because it looks to all of a person's needs: medical, personal, emotional and spiritual."

• "My Wishes" Pediatric Advance Care Expression:
• Synopsis: The "My Wishes" booklet, explained here, allows a child to express, but not direct (since a minor lacks legal capacity to do so), personal preferences regarding:
• "How I want people to treat me."
• "How comfortable I want to be."
• "What I want my loved ones to know."
• "What I want my doctors and nurses to know."
• Form: A "read-only" sample is available here.
  

• AARP (American Association of Retired Persons):

  • Resources on End of Life, Living Wills, Dying and Death -- Links to books, articles and web site areas about planning for the end of life and for dying, including wills, estate planning, family discussions and more.
  • Talking about Your Final Wishes -- Thinking and talking about your death is hard, but planning for it can help you live – and die – the way you want.

• Care For PA:

  • Synopsis: Reference page re health care powers of attorney, living wills, & mental health powers of attorney, with links (02/01/06).

• Caring Connections:

• Advance Care Directives
• Synopsis: Prepared under pre-Act 169 PA law, and the form included is repealed by Act 169 (PDF format, 15 pages).
  

• Partnership for Caring: America's Voices for the Dying:

• Mission: Provides free, state-specific living wills.

• Pennsylvania Catholic Conference:

  • Form of Living Will & Proxy for Health Care Decisions (1993).