Aging Resources
Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest is a joint initiative between the Washington State Hospital Association and Washington State Medical Association.
We inspire conversations about the care people want at the end of life. This comprehensive initiative uses a variety of approaches, such as an advance care planning program, community engagement, physician education, advocacy, and a central repository.
We help the public make informed choices about end-of-life care. We help health care organizations and community groups discuss, record and honor people’s end-of-life choices.
We are a philanthropic endeavor so all who want to participate can.
Honoring Choices Pacific NorthWest
999 Third Avenue, Suite 1400
Seattle, WA 98104-4041
206-577-1803
A tool for finding transportation options throughout Pierce, King and Snohomish counties.
End of Life Washington – formerly Compassion & Choices of Washington – guides people in planning for the final days of their lives.
We provide free end-of-life counseling and client support services statewide to qualified patients who desire a peaceful death.
We encourage advance planning and set a new standard in Washington for advance planning documents with our End of Life Washington Advance Directive.
We promote the use of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) for those with serious illnesses. We provide these and many other documents at no cost.
We created and played a key role in leading the coalition that passed Initiative 1000 (the Washington Death with Dignity Act) into law in November, 2008 with nearly 60 percent of the popular vote. We now steward, protect, and uphold the law.
We advocate for better pain management, patient-directed end-of-life care, and expanded choice for the terminally ill. We do not suggest, encourage, or promote suicide or euthanasia.
There is never a fee for our services.
End of Life Washington
PO Box 61369
Seattle WA 98141
Phone: 206-256-1636
Fax: 206-256-1640
info@endoflifewa.org
Funding to cover AIDS treatment for anyone who makes under 400% of the poverty level. Detailed information from the ADAP directory, as well as links to the direct DOH page.
AHAT Homecare provides help to people with HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C in Washington State. We offer affordable housing and access to healthcare for residents and the community in three programs – Three Cedars, Project Open Door and Healthy Living.
AHAT Homecare
301 North L
Tacoma, WA 98403
mailing address
AHAT Homecare
P.O. Box 2251
Tacoma, WA 98401
253-272-5533
228 Seventh Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
Phone: 202-547-7424
Fax: 202-547-3540
A documentary about physician-assisted suicide.
In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. As a result, any individual whom two physicians diagnose as having less than six months to live can lawfully request a fatal dose of barbiturate to end his or her life. Since 1994, more than 500 Oregonians have taken their mortality into their own hands. In How to Die in Oregon, filmmaker Peter Richardson gently enters the lives of the terminally ill as they consider whether – and when – to end their lives by lethal overdose. Richardson examines both sides of this complex, emotionally charged issue. What emerges is a life-affirming, staggeringly powerful portrait of what it means to die with dignity.
1707 L Street NW, Suite 220
Washington, DC 20036
Contact us or call 202-457-5811 / 800-854-3402 | Mon-Fri, 9:00-5:00 ET
The mission of the Death with Dignity National Center is to promote Death with Dignity laws based on the model Oregon Death with Dignity Act, both to provide an option for dying individuals and to stimulate nationwide improvements in end-of-life care.
Death with Dignity
520 SW 6th Avenue #1220
Portland, OR 97204
503-228-4415
Ms. Karnes “is an internationally respected speaker, educator, author and thought leader on matters of end of life. She is a renowned authority to explain the dying process to families, healthcare professionals and the community at large.”
Am Soc Aging
575 Market Street, Suite 2100
San Francisco, CA 94105-2869 USA
(415) 974-9600 or (800) 537-9728
fax: (415) 974-0300