Compassion & Choices is committed to enforcing and expanding the rights of terminally ill people. Through our work in the courts, we fight to ensure that everyone can receive high-quality end-of-life care that is in line with their values, wishes and beliefs. We have been at the forefront of end-of-life care legal issues. Examples include the fight to explicitly authorize, expand and defend access to medical aid in dying as well as the effort to remove unnecessary restrictions from and secure compliance with advance care planning documents. In every case it is involved in, Compassion & Choices’ legal team prioritizes and seeks to advance patient-directed care.
Part of the Kligler legal team, including attorneys from Morgan Lewis, O'Melveny and Compassion & Choices at the Supreme Judicial Court in Boston.
Do you have questions about the language behind advance care planning? A critical part of the process is choosing someone who will represent you in case you can’t represent yourself. But the terms used to refer to these representatives, and the forms needed to appoint them, can vary — especially by state or region.
When we think about healthcare, most of us imagine doctors diagnosing a problem and offering a treatment to fix it. But in reality, modern medicine often works within a specific framework called the medical model.
Recognizing that telehealth provides vital services to people across the country, Compassion & Choices has fought for telehealth to become a standard part of medicine in the United States since 2020.
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