Martin Smolin Shared a Recent Letter from Compassion and Choices

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Martin,

Have you heard? Finish Strong: Putting YOUR Priorities First at Life’s End is now available as an audiobook!

Barbara Coombs Lee, Compassion & Choices President Emerita and Senior Adviser, and author of Finish Strong, recorded the audiobook herself to share these important stories and learnings with you. Barbara’s decades of experience and wealth of knowledge can help you jumpstart the most important conversations about end-of-life options with your loved ones and doctors. But don’t forget, you have many resources in addition to this new audiobook to help you plan for the end of life.

Compassion & Choices is proud to offer a host of tools and resources to help you and your loved ones finish strong. Here are just some of the resources you can use today to plan an end of life with love, purpose, and agency:

Dementia Values & Priorities Tool

This online resource helps you stay in control of your life and care in the early stages of a dementia diagnosis. You will be able to provide a set of clear-cut care instructions to your loved ones, outlining your intentions through a personalized care plan called a Dementia Healthcare Directive.

Diagnosis Decoder

The Diagnosis Decoder is an easy-to-use online tool that helps you find the right questions to ask to get the care you want. It will also help you prepare for a general medical appointment, oncology appointment or dementia care. Your questions can be printed or emailed to a provider or family member to help guide important discussions during medical appointments.

My End-of-Life Decision Guide and Toolkit

This guide and toolkit will help you work through your end-of-life priorities and empower you to have valuable discussions with your healthcare providers. The toolkit includes forms you can use right away for advance-care planning.

Plan Your Care Resource Center

Our website includes dozens of end-of-life resources: information about your state’s advance directives, guides to prioritizing your end-of-life options and tips on how to talk to your doctor about the end of life. The Plan Your Care Resource Center also includes Spanish-language resources—a glossary of terms, informational packets, videos and much more.

I hope these tools can help you and your loved ones have these critical conversations when facing end-of-life decisions and care.

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