Council for Fashion & Social Change
Social Impact Through Collaboration
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YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

COMPASSION & CHOICES

 
 

Mission 

Compassion & Choices is the nation’s oldest, largest and most active nonprofit organization committed to improving care and expanding choice at the end of life.

 
 
 

Where your support goes

Compassion & Choices
works nationwide in legislatures, Congress, courts,
medical settings and communities

 
 
 

The results 

Established the undertreatment of pain as a form of elder abuse and that caregivers must manage patients’ pain in Bergman v. Eden Medical Center 

Passed AB 487: Pain Management and the Appropriate Care and Treatment of the Terminally Ill in California in 2001, collaborating with the California Medical Association.