Five Wishes and National Hospice & Palliative Care Month
Five Wishes applauds the work of all hospice and palliative care staff and volunteers who provide dignified care to seriously ill individuals, comfort to family caregivers and immeasurable benefits to their community. Thank you!
To help your hospice promote awareness, we’re offering resources to supplement or ignite your community or professional campaigns.
“Ask Me How Hospice Can Help” Buttons – Free when you complete your custom order of Five Wishes before October 10!
Hospice staff and volunteers can be your greatest champions, talking with family, friends and neighbors about their work. Wearable Ask Me How Hospice Can Help buttons are proven conversation starters. Prepare staff and volunteers to answer questions using our customizable information document.
Download a button to use on your website or social media here.
Community Presentations
Ask Me How Hospice Can Help: The Gift of Five Wishes - Your staff and volunteers can use this free, customizable PowerPoint presentation to start community conversations about making end-of-life choices, including hospice care.
Engage the Media
Download our customizable press release or blog post , highlighting your efforts to promote advance care planning during National Hospice & Palliative Care Month. Be sure to add your contact information and a quote, where indicated, from your spokesperson.
Referral Outreach Resources
Hospices often report an increase in referrals after giving physician offices customized Five Wishes advance directive documents and other useful tools.
Customize Five Wishes: Customize Five Wishes advance directive documents with your organization's logo, message and contact information. Contact us at (850) 681-2010 or info@fivewishes.org to discuss customizing your Five Wishes.
Physicians often want support from hospices to help them have advance care planning and end-of-life care conversations with patients. The Five Wishes Physician Toolkit is a useful resource for your most important referral partners, and can include customized Five Wishes advance directive documents with your hospice’s branding to differentiate your program with your most valuable referral sources.
What Should I Know About You and Your Care Wishes? is a simple, engaging patient education tool to help physicians begin discussing advance care planning and end-of-life care options with patients. Customize it with your contact information in the footer on page 2, and give your liaisons copies along with customized Five Wishes advance directive documents to bring to local physicians.
Why Five Wishes?
The Five Wishes advance directive document specifically mentions hospice care in Wish 3 and gives users a prompt to request information "about options for hospice care to provide medical, emotional and spiritual care for me and my loved ones."
The Five Wishes program approaches advance care planning in a way that is compatible with hospice care. Five Wishes gets people in your community thinking what good care at the end of life is all about -- which makes it an ideal tool for community education. Hospice organizations across America use the Five Wishes program to increase awareness and promote their programs during National Hospice & Palliative Care Month. You can too.
Bilingual Five Wishes: The Five Wishes advance directive document is available in 32 languages. Like the English version, bilingual versions of Five Wishes are written in easy-to-understand language. Each copy carries a side-by-side English translation.
Five Wishes Digital: Complete and sign your document online. Customized to meet requirements all 50 states. Make unlimited revisions without any time limits.