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This project receives funding from:
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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The Nathan Cummings Foundation
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Technology Opportunities Program,
National Telecommunications and
Information
Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce
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August 7, 2004
Welcome! You have found an innovative community project that
is working to improve how people experience dying, caregiving, death,
and bereavement. We focus on community-based research and public
engagement to foster social change.
Life's End Institute: Missoula Demonstration Project has
helped over 200 communities nationwide in their own efforts to improve
end-of-life care. Our community-based research
tools, products,
and consultation
packages have been used by many of them.
We hope you will explore our site to learn how you, too, can
improve the quality of life's end in your own community. But first, find
out about our most recent developments by following the links below.
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Save the Date!!!
August 6th-9th, 2005, Missoula, Montana
Tools For Action
Gathering Resources
for Keeping
Your Community Alive and Caring
The 5th Annual Life's
End Institute Retreat
Join Ira Byock, MD, and
other experts in end-of-life care for an invigorating retreat in the
Northern Rockies. CEU's Available. Watch for details!
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Caring Circles
Missoula's Caring
Circles helps to improve the lives of family caregivers and
those in their care. Find out how you can volunteer or learn to be a team
leader of a caring circle. Not in Missoula? Learn about the national Support Team Network.
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Choices Bank
Life's End Institute and nine western Montana partners have
developed the Choices Bank, a secure Web site holding advance
directives for health care. The Choices Bank also offers facilitators
who can guide individuals and groups through the advance
care planning process.
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Last
Acts Report
"Means to a Better End:
A Report on Dying in
America Today"
This ground-breaking report on the quality of end-of-life care in
America today can be seen in its entirety at The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Web site.
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Life's End
Institute
responds
to disappointing Montana results in "Means to a Better End" report.
View the Montana report card.
To view
 PDF
files get your free
Acrobat
Reader.
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VESTA
Life's
End Institute is the exclusive licensor for the rights to produce this
compelling play. Vesta addresses many end-of-life issues such as:
loss of independence, economic hardship, family dynamics and
caregiving.
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Life's End Institute In the News
Read about what we've been doing lately in our own hometown in our Media
Spotlight.
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