Grants to assist end-of-life care

Advertiser Staff

Hawai'i's Executive Office on Aging has received a $100,000 grant from the Archstone Foundation for the second phase of its program aimed at improving care for people nearing the end of life.

Titled "Compassionate Conversations," the program provides resources and training about death and dying to professionals who work with older adults.

During the first phase of this program, training was provided throughout the state, an award-winning video was created, and an end-of-life care resource kit for aging network professionals was published and disseminated to every state.

The award for the second phase of the program supports continued training in Hawai'i as well as assistance to other states to incorporate resources first piloted in Hawai'i.

For more information, call 586-0100.

• Hawaiian Islands Hospice Organization, one of the four lead partners of Kokua Mau, Hawai'i's Center for End-of-Life Resources, has received a grant of $15,000 from the HMSA Foundation, toward a public awareness campaign to improve end-of-life care in Hawai'i.

The money will be used for television and radio noncommercial announcements in partnership with the Hawai'i Association of Broadcasters. The media campaign will focus attention on the issue of sensitive and appropriate care of the dying, and on the availability of resources and information from Kokua Mau.

• HMSA Foundation has also awarded a $130,687 grant to the University of Hawai'i Center on Aging at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. This center, too, is a lead partner in Kokua Mau.

Money will support a three-year program called Appropriate Care of Residents of Nursing Home, which will improve end-of-life care for residents in eight nursing facilities in Hawai'i.

For more information, call 585-9977.