Five Wishes

Five Wishes program was developed as the first advance care plan to address personal, emotional, and spiritual wishes, in addition to medical treatment. It’s called the “living will with heart and soul” because it’s based on what is most important – being able to define a roadmap for how you want to be cared for. It has been embraced by families, caregivers, community groups, faith communities, medical and legal providers, and businesses.

For over 25 years, we have distributed more than 40 million Five Wishes advance directives and receive positive feedback daily from individuals, their families and caregivers, as well as medical providers, that the document has helped them feel more at ease knowing that their loved one's wishes were detailed and in a legally valid document. 

More than 40,000 partner organizations assist in the distribution of FIve WIshes, most notable over 1000 hospices as well as Caralell, a caregiver empowerment organization, that just completed an advance care planning program for the Caregiver Action Network. 

Five Wishes is available in several formats (paper, digital and PDF) and comes in 30 different languages.