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Advance Directives and Advance Care Planning: Report to Congress

Publication Date

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

August 2008

PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2008/ADCongRpt.pdf (302 PDF pages)


This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-03-0023 between the U.S. Department of Health and the RAND Corporation. For additional information about this subject, you can visit the DALTCP home page at /office-behavioral-health-disability-aging-policy-bhdap or contact the ASPE Project Officer, Susan Polniaszek and Judith Peres, at HHS/ASPE/DALTCP, Room 424E, H.H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20201. Their e-mail addresses are: Susan.Polniaszek@hhs.gov and Judith.Peres@hhs.gov.

This report was prepared through a contract with RAND Health (Neil S. Wenger, M.D., M.P.H., Lisa R. Shugarman, Ph.D., with Anne Wilkinson, Ph.D.) and staff from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (including Judith Peres, L.C.S.W.-C.). In addition, specific commissioned papers by Myra Christopher, John Carney, M.Ed., Charles Sabatino, J.D., and Gary Stein, J.D., M.S.W. are reflected in this work.

The opinions and views expressed in this report are those of the author. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Health and Human Services, the contractor or any other funding organization.