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 * About Us
   
   OUR MISSION, VISION AND STRATEGIC PLAN
   
   Learn more about us and our long-term objectives for FY24-FY28.
   
   LEADERSHIP, BOARD & COMMITTEES
   
   Meet our Senior Leadership and esteemed Board and Committee members.
   
   FINANCIAL INFO
   
   Access our annual and financial reports and trusted charitable ratings.
   
   ABOUT US CONTINUED
   
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 * Our Issues
   
   HEALTHCARE EQUITY AT THE END OF LIFE
   
   Compassion & Choices is working in partnership with our Leadership Councils
   and partner organizations to address inequities in end-of-life care and
   planning.
   
   DEMENTIA END-OF-LIFE CARE
   
   We're working to transform how people die with dementia to ensure people are
   aware, empowered and supported in getting the care they want – or do not want
   – should dementia take hold.
   
   MEDICAL AID IN DYING
   
   Compassion & Choices is leading efforts to authorize, implement and defend
   medical aid in dying so all terminally ill people who are eligible will have
   access to the full range of end-of-life care options.
   
   NATIONAL EMERGENCY & PALLIATIVE MEDICINE INITIATIVE
   
   We will transform care by advancing and promoting the integration of
   palliative care in emergency settings.
   
   OUR ISSUES CONTINUED
   
   Voluntarily Stop Eating and Drinking Palliative Sedation Palliative Care
   Hospice Care Advance Care Planning Unwanted Medical Treatment Refusals to
   Provide Care
 * Resources
   
   TOOLS TO FINISH STRONG
   
   Access all of our end-of-life planning tools to Finish Strong
   
   END-OF-LIFE CONSULTATION SERVICES
   
   Our End-of-Life Consultation Program (EOLC) provides confidential,
   nonjudgmental, professional support around end-of-life planning, anywhere in
   the country.
   
   LIVING (AND DYING) WITH DEMENTIA
   
   Whether you are experiencing symptoms, received a diagnosis, or care about
   someone with dementia, it is important to understand what to expect and how
   to plan
   
   RESOURCES FOR CLINICIANS
   
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   training and resources for clinicians.
   
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   you need to navigate your care preferences for the end of life.
   
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TOOLS TO FINISH STRONG

COMPASSION & CHOICES IS PROUD TO OFFER A HOST OF TOOLS AND RESOURCES TO HELP YOU
AND YOUR LOVED ONES “FINISH STRONG” BY PLANNING FOR AN END-OF-LIFE EXPERIENCE
THAT MATCHES THE LIFE YOU’VE ENJOYED – DEFINED BY LOVE, PURPOSE AND AGENCY.
FINISH STRONG TOOLS INCLUDE ONLINE AND PRINT RESOURCES SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO
ADDRESS PLANNING YOUR END-OF-LIFE CARE AT EVERY STATE, EVEN AFTER A DEMENTIA
DIAGNOSIS.


PRINT AND ONLINE RESOURCES


THE END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS GUIDE AND TOOLKIT

Compassion & Choices’ My End-of-Life Decisions: An Advance Planning Guide and
Toolkit will help you work through your end-of-life priorities and empower you
to have valuable discussions with your healthcare providers. It includes
tear-out sheets for advance care planning. The 40-page toolkit is available for
download or a free hard copy can be ordered. Some of the unique and important
features of this toolkit are:

 * The Values Worksheet includes a series of questions that help you think
   through your priorities for care at life’s end.
 * An Assisted-Living Facility Rider helps ensure that an assisted-living
   facility will respect a resident’s wishes for end-of-life care.
 * A Hospital Visitation Form helps ensure that people you most want to be with
   you are admitted on a priority basis, whether or not they are family members.
 * A Sectarian Healthcare Directive helps ensure that a patient’s instructions
   will be respected in a situation where institutional policy conflicts with
   those instructions and that, depending on state law, the provider will assist
   with the transfer.
 * My Particular Wishes is meant to inform physicians, nurses or other care
   providers of your consent to or refusal of certain specific therapies. It
   also guides a family member or any other person you name in making decisions
   for you, if you cannot articulate these decisions yourself.

Click here to order a FREE hard copy of this 40-page toolkit here.


RECURSOS EN ESPAÑOL

Compassion & Choices está comprometido en apoderar a las personas para que
obtengan la atención y cuidados que desean durante una enfermedad grave o al
final de su vida. Una forma de lograrlo es ayudando a las personas a
planificarlo y convertirse en defensores de sí mismos y de sus seres queridos.

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DEMENTIA VALUES AND PRIORITIES TOOL

This interactive tool will document your wishes regarding the care you want and
create an addendum that can be added to your existing advance directive.

Access The Tool


LGBTQ+ ADVANCE CARE PLANNING TOOKIT

Compassion & Choices is proud to partner with SAGE to create a comprehensive end
of life planning guide for LGBTQ+ people, by LGBTQ+ people. This tool walks
through decisions around health care proxies, hospice care, how we honor life,
and so much more. An excellent resource for individuals, chosen family members
and professionals working in deathcare

Download It Here


FINISH STRONG | THE BOOK

Finish Strong: Putting Your Priorities First at Life’s End, by President Emerita
/ Senior Adviser of Compassion & Choices Barbara Coombs Lee, is the guide to
achieving the positive end-of-life experience you want and deserve. Finish
Strong is for those who know they should prepare for the end of life, but are
unsure how to think and talk about it. The book aims to help you live true to
your values and priorities as vigor wanes, and how to make sure your wishes are
honored. It describes concrete action to take in the here and now, to help live
your best life to the end.

Click here to Purchase Your Copy of Finish Strong

Access the Finish Strong discussion guide here


CLINICIAN CONVERSATION TOOLKIT

Studies show the single most powerful thing a person can do to improve the
chance for gentle dying, is simply an courageously, talk about it with your
clinicians. Our toolkit provides you with a step-by-step guide to finding
clinicians who will support you in advance and during a serious diagnosis. This
includes:

 * Our simple Finding a Partner Doctor postcard, which provides you with a list
   of the questions to ask to ensure you and your provider are on the same page.
 * Information about our Doc to Doc Consultation Program, a resource you can
   provide to your clinicians if they have questions about how to legally
   support your end-of-life wishes including information on medical aid in
   dying, voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, palliative sedation and
   more.
 * Links to our powerful diagnosis decoder, an easy-to-use online tool that
   helps you find the right questions to ask to get the care you want. This
   includes a version for a person with any illness, as well as a customized
   version for those facing cancer or dementia.




ADVANCED DIRECTIVE FORMS


FIND YOUR STATE'S ADVANCE DIRECTIVE AT CARINGINFO


MEDICAL AID IN DYING INFORMATION PACKETS IN AUTHORIZED STATES

State-specific booklets that provide step-by-step instructions for how to use
the law, how to find a physician and what to consider when talking with your
physician. Also see the Medical Aid in Dying tracking sheet

 * California
 * Colorado
 * Hawai‘i
 * District of Columbia
 * Maine
 * Montana
 * New Jersey
 * New Mexico
 * Oregon
 * Vermont
 * Washington


STORIES

Tell Your Story


CAROL BOERNER

Carol Boerner is a retired physician and advocate for the importance of advance
care planning and improving end-of-life care.
“People don’t know they have choices about their end-of-life care. Compassion &
Choices gives them the information they need to know their options and make that
decision.”
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ROBERT WEBB

Suffering from lung cancer, Robert Webb’s father wanted the option of medical
aid in dying so that he could die comfortably at home.
“My father endured months of pain and had no option but to die in a hospital,
not at home like he wanted. If medical aid in dying had been available in
Nevada, things could have been different.”
Learn More



CATHY DEERING

Cathy Deering, pharmacy technician and mother of three, witnessed her father’s
heartbreaking and painful death from ALS.
“My dad spent his last day struggling to breathe for over eight hours. His death
was cruel. The option of medical aid in dying should have been available to
him.”
Learn More


MAGGIE SCHNEIDER HUSTON

Maggie is advocating for patient-directed care after her father struggled to get
his doctors to honor his wishes for a peaceful end of life.
“The lessons I’ve learned from my parents’ deaths are both practical and
painfully profound: Make an advance directive and discuss it with your
healthcare team. Make sure your loved ones know your wishes. Choose empathetic
doctors who will listen to you.”
Learn More



VICTOR SILVA

Thanks to many dinner table conversations, Victor knew his parents’ wishes for
their end-of-life care and was able to honor them.
“I knew Mom wanted to be comfortable at the end of her life, and I had promised
her that I would make sure that she was as happy as she could be until the very
last second.”
Learn More


LISA BRADLEY

When Lisa’s mother developed dementia and eventually enrolled in hospice, her
end-of-life planning helped make her passing peaceful.
“I’m so thankful that I was able to be at Mom’s side without having to worry
about making decisions for her end-of-life care, because she had already made
those decisions for herself. I was able to just be present.”
Learn More



BARBARA WEBSTER

Barbara Webster’s brother Chuck wanted the option of medical aid in dying to end
his suffering from a rare form of bladder cancer.
“If Chuck could have died the way he wanted, he would have been surrounded by
friends and family, telling stories, listening to Etta James, and being lauded
by those he loved. Instead, he experienced exactly the end he feared.”
Learn More


SANFORD WOOD

Sanford Wood’s wife made her end-of-life wishes known: She wanted comfort care
and to not prolong the dying process.
“Several years before Pam passed away, she and I talked about what we wanted for
our end-of-life care and created living wills. Most of all, Pam just wanted to
be kept comfortable.”
Learn More

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