Tools to Finish Strong

• 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.

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.

LGBTQ+ Advance Care Planning Toolkit

Finish Strong | The Book

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

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