Advance care planning addresses your personal, emotional and spiritual wishes, in addition to medical, at the end of your life. Planning now for the end of life can give you and your loved ones the gift of knowing how you wish to be cared for. These resources can help you with that planning:
The Institute for Human Caring was founded by renowned palliative care physician and Missoulian, Dr. Ira Byock, to advance goal-aligned whole-person care across the Providence health system. The Institute seeks to improve the patient and family experience for those living with serious illness. Their resources offer advance care planning tools, conversation guidelines and much more.
Five Wishes is an advance care planning document that helps individuals express their end-of-life preferences in a way that is both legally valid in many states and personally meaningful. It is often referred to as a “living will with a heart” because it goes beyond medical directives to address emotional, spiritual, and personal care wishes.
CaringInfo, a program of the National Alliance for Care at Home, provides free resources to educate and empower patients and caregivers to make decisions about serious illness and end-of-life care and services. CaringInfo’s goal is that all people are making informed decisions about their care. In addition to offering planning resources, they also offer Advance Care Directive documents for each state.
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Click here for info for Montana’s Advance Care Directive Form »
POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) is a medical order that is specifically for individuals with serious illnesses or frailty, ensuring immediate adherence to treatment preferences. It outlines a patient’s preferences for life-sustaining treatments and is designed to ensure that patients receive the level of care they want in emergency situations when they may not be able to communicate their wishes.
Partners Hope Foundation and our partners are dedicated to providing education around end-of-life planning. Check out our Event Calendar for upcoming workshops.
