RESOURCES

Radio Interview

The Aging Answers Show on KWRH – 92.9FM with Gina Marsh and Carla Baum: Let’s Have the Conversation – What Is and Why is Advance Care Planning Critical to All of Us?

https://anchor.fm/gina-march/episodes/Lets-Have-the-Conversation--What-Is-and-Why-is-Advance-Care-Planning-Critical-to-All-of-Us-ebeph8/a-a1mdgsd

Advance Care Planning Essentials

• The Conversation Project – Advance Care Planning resources that help you get started and record end-of-life wishes. Specific resources for health care, faith communities and general community focus are easily available to offer support. These resources include starter kits, videos, blogs, etc. theconversationproject.org
• Respecting Choices – Advance Care Planning Certification, resources, videos, training materials for healthcare professionals are available. respectingchoices.org
• Gateway End-of-Life Coalition – gatewayeol.com
• Missouri Bar Association – Advance Directive form and resource book available free of Advance Directive form available in fillable form. www.mobar.org
• American Bar Association on Law and Aging – gives the ability to store your ADs, health information and contacts – can send the Advance Directive to healthcare providers via email - https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_aging/about_us/
• Aging with Dignity – resources to prepare for end-of-life discussions and creator of the Five Wishes Advance Directive form – agingwithdignity.org
• Growth House, Inc. – offers free access to over 4,000 pages of educational materials about end-of-life care - growthhouse.org
• National Institute on Aging – End-of-Life – provides an overview of the issues and decisions to be made by people caring for someone when end-of-life comes – nia.hih.gov/health/end-of-life
• End-of-Life University – resources for learning, teaching and conversations – Karen Wyatt, MD – www.eoluniversity.com

Advance Care Planning Forms and Links

Advance Directive Forms

• Missouri Bar Association Form and Advance Directive Resource Book - www.mobar.org
• Five Wishes –  fivewishes.org
• Caring Conversations – www.practicalbioethics.org/resources/caring-conversations
• llinois Advance Directive link – www.dph.illinois.gov
  

Advance Directive Links

• The Conversation Project – theconversationproject.org
• Respecting Choices – respectingchoices.org
• Center for Practical Bioethics - practicalbioethics.org
• WidowNet – WidowNet.org
• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization – caringinfo.org
• National Center for Elder Abuse – ncea.acl.gov
• Children’s Hospice International – chionline.org
• Missouri Bar Association – wmobar.org
• Missouri Revised Statues – moga.mo.gov
• Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services – dhss.mo.gov
• Missouri Hospice and Palliative Care Organization – caringinfo.org
• The You Only Die Once Course – Preparing for Life’s End with Grace and Gusto – https://course.yodo.org/about-yodo/

Advance Care Planning Video and Audio Links

• Speak Up – youtube.com/watch?v=Bar0qZTUGdw - highlights the value of Advance Care Planning – often used as a promotional activity on National Health Care Decision Day – April 16th
• It’s About the Conversation – six-part video by Honoring Choices Wisconsin – prepares a variety of audiences to have the Advance Care Planning conversation - https://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/
• How to Select Your Healthcare Agent – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTxv-20ULwQ
• How to Start the Conversation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyMXtVprN74
• Writing a Letter to Your Loved Ones – Sharing Your Thoughts – The Conversation Project - youtube.com/watch?v=78LvYE3vMOA
• The Town that Talks About Death on NPR - https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/03/05/286126451/living-wills-are-the-talk-of-the-town-in-la-crosse-wis

Advance Care Planning Books

• Being Mortal – Medicine and What Matters in the End – Atul Gawande, MD
• Let’s Talk About Death Over Dinner – Michael Hebb, Founder of DeathOverDinner.org, An invitation and Guide to Life’s Most Important Conversation
• Having Your Own Say – Getting the Right Care When It Matters Most – Edited by Bernard Hammes, PhD, Gunderson Health System
• The Art of Dying Well – A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life – Katy Butler
• When My  Times Comes - Diane Rehm - Conversations About Whether Those Who Are Dying Should Have the Right to Determine When Life Should End
• A Beginner's Guide to the End - BJ Miller - Pull back the curtain on some of the unknowns surrounding death and dying
• Finish Strong - Barbara Coombs Lee - Putting YOUR Priorities First at Life's End
• On Grief & Grieving - Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. & David Kessler
• Visions, Trips and Crowded Rooms - Who and What you See Before You Die - David Kessler