Resources

Resources for Staying Healthy and Happy

• Positive Psychology - Learning optimism and developing a positive approach to life
• See Activities at Home – This list also exists under RESOURCES in the menubar.

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Resources to Help You Plan Now for the Last Years of Your Life
The resources here will help you plan for the years head. You might start by going through A Guide to Orchestrating Your Life as You Age. The resources that follow give you steps you can take one at a time to help you make the important decisions that will help you feel less anxious about the years ahead. These help you sort out what your wishes are, and what your directives are, if you are very ill or facing the end of your life.

• A Guide to Orchestrating Your Life as You Age - This guide helps you understand how to complete tasks and set up documents so that you can feel more confident about your current situation and your decisions for the coming years.

• Advance Directives - This is a great resource on the information your closest family and friends need to know about your wishes.
• The Conversation Project - How to plan for conversations about your health care wishes, including how to sort out for yourself what your wishes are. 
• Health Care Proxy - Here is the NYS Health Care Proxy form, and lots of information to help you understand how to choose a health care proxy, why it is important, and what that person needs to know about your wishes (see Advance Directives and The Conversation Project above).
• Living Will Registration - Complete this document and send it in. Assuring Your Wishes will allow you and your doctors access your living will from any internet connected computer. This service is provided by United Hospice of Rockland. Please be sure to make a donation to them to help cover the costs of this service. See more information on Advance Directives on this page. 
• Bring Clarity to Your Financial Records - What Your Financial Power of Attorney or Executor Need to Know