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OTHER ADVANCE HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVES

(LIVING WILLS WITH DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR HEALTH CARE)

You can search for state-specific forms here: 

  • CaringInfo.com
  • American Bar Association’s list of state-specific forms.
  • Prepare for your Care allows you to find state-specific advance directive forms for healthcare and fill them out in 5 easy steps. You can create an account and fill in the form online or print the forms and fill them in offline.

Five Wishes ($5 fee)

Formswift’s Living Will /Advance Directive. Sign up for a year but cancel within a week for $5 fee. It lists many medical procedures as options.

Mideocard.com has healthcare professionals that can guide you in creating a video advance directive that can be stored on the internet. ($$$ fee)

DEMENTIA SUPPLEMENTS

End of LIfe Choices New York

End of Life Choices Washington

Final Exit Network In the right circumstances, Final Exit will provide legal counsel to assist your healthcare surrogate in demanding that your care provider honor the dementia supplement to your advance directive or perhaps litigate on your behalf.

Developed by Barak Gaster, MD with help from experts in the fields of geriatrics, neurology, and palliative care. This was published in the NY Times. It allows instructions for each stage of dementia. Rationale for this directive, published in JAMA.

PREVENTING ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

Extensive recent medical research clearly indicates that with a good lifestyle you can prevent developing Alzheimer’s disease. What life style changes? (As many as you can do; the more, the better.)

  1. Eat healthy
  2. Exercise regularly
  3. Avoid negative thinking
  4. Do what you enjoy
  5. Have a good sense of humor
  6. Meditate, live mindfully
  7. Socialize
  8. Get outside into nature
  9. Actively relax – listen to music, garden, etc.
  10. Get a massage – even the 15 minute ones
  11. Change your environment – take a trip
  12. Stop multitasking
  13. Turn off electronic devices
  14. Take supplements, especially B complex, C, zinc, magnesium

This list is taken from a class on prevention given at the San Diego Community Colleges in the fall of 2022. You can get similar information from this YouTube video: Ten tips to prevent Alzheimer's, Melissa Batchelor. There are others.