We lead efforts to improve end-of-life care from the ground up: we teach workshops, give presentations, hold virtual and in-person events, create culturally competent materials and more.
Equip yourself and your loved ones this Minority Health Month! Join us and the Latinx Task Force on April 9 for Beyond Words: Empowering Latino Communities by Addressing Disparities in Palliative and Hospice Care and on April 23 for Peace of Mind Starts with a Plan: Financial Planning for Latino Families.
The Dementia Values and Priorities Tool is designed to help you communicate your wishes regarding future care if you are living with dementia. After answering a series of questions related to the changes commonly seen in the progression of dementia, the tool will provide you with a document that can be added to your existing advance directive and shared with others. The interactive online tool is available in English and Spanish, printable version are available in multiple language
The guide will help you think through your priorities for end-of-life care, complete an advance directive and other forms you may need, choose a representative to speak for you if you cannot, and consider common end-of-life medical interventions so you can specify what you want or don’t want — right up to the end.
We have an extensive video library of our storytellers and supporters.
We hold virtual events and webinars to encourage end-of-life care and planning conversations.
Compassion & Choices is proud to have multiple leadership councils composed of volunteer leaders from medicine, community advocacy, law and other areas of interest.
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.
Stories are an essential part of our work to educate and empower all people to understand their options, plan ahead and take action early to chart their end-of-life journey.
Motivated by the impact of racism, inequity and disparities in end-of-life care, we are connecting with people nationwide to spread the word about the importance of end-of-life care planning and accessing quality end-of-life care.
Compassion & Choices Action Network strongly challenges the arguments of several disability groups and two people with disabilities who filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday in the Central District of California against California officials challenging the End of Life Option Act. The plaintiffs claim that the recently updated California medical–aid-in-dying law, which took effect in 2022, discriminates against people with disabilities by violating the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the U.S. Constitution’s due process and equal protection clauses in the 14th Amendment.
Terminally ill Minnesotans are one step closer to the end-of-life care option of medical aid in dying after the House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee voted to pass the End-of-Life Option Act Thursday. The proposed legislation now moves to the House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee for their consideration, likely next week. The vote came…
As we mark Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 through Oct. 15), we reflect on the importance of the physician-patient relationship in creating meaningful conversations about health care throughout our lives, including at the end of life In this video, Dr. Carlos Hernandez-Torres, a Hospice & Palliative Medicine specialist in New York, and member of the…
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