End-of-Life Issues

Initiative provides advance care directives to ethnically and culturally diverse communities

Published in Pharma Investments, Ventures and Law Weekly, November 19th, 2006

In an effort to help eliminate language barriers to end-of-life decision-making for individuals within ethnically and culturally diverse communities nationwide, a collaboration of health care organizations including United Health Foundation, Aging with Dignity, the American Hospital Association and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization is distributing translated copies of the Five Wishes advance care directive.

Aging with Dignity's Five Wishes has been translated into Chinese (traditional and simplified), Arabic, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Somali, Hmong, Korean, French, Polish, Russian, Vietnamese, Albanian, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, Japanese,...

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Source: Pharma Investments, Ventures and Law Weekly (2006-11-19)

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