Honoring Choices Partners are taking the lead to arm their care providers and staff with a common, unified health care planning language & set of Massachusetts tools, to actively engage adults & families in health care planning discussions. The Who’s Your Agent? Health Care Planning Workshop for Care Providers fall tour kicks off  September 15  in…

We welcome Executive Director David Stevens and all of the MCOA staff, colleagues and Senior Center Directors to the Honoring Choices Partner network. We are thrilled for the opportunity to support the 349 Councils on Aging (COA) with health care planning information and proven programs. Their mission is to support the independence of adults 60 and…

The Conversation Project, an Honoring Choices Partner, is once again hosting Conversation Sabbath on November 11-20. It’s a week long celebration to invite clergy in Greater Boston and beyond to “preach and teach” about the importance of having conversations with our families and friends about our wishes for care at the end of life. Rev.…

On May 12, many Community Partners and Alliance Partners were among the over 400 people who attended the inaugural summit of the Massachusetts Coalition for Serious Illness Care at the Kennedy Library. The Massachusetts Coalition for Serious Illness Care (“Coalition”) is  “a diverse set of organizations committed to ensuring that health care for everyone in…

Over 75 care professionals came together for an inspiring and thoughtful morning at our first-ever Honoring Choices Workshop in Worcester. These talented professionals have a deep-seated knowledge and long standing commitment in helping adults and families across all ages, cultures, faiths and capacity connect to person-centered care.  In attendance were care providers, clergy, caregivers, attorneys,…

Deborah Fins and colleague Susan Ritz from Deborah Fins Associates PC, an Honoring Choices Community Partner, are experienced Aging Life Care Managers in Worcester. Ms. Fins, LICSW, CMC writes about timely issues for consumers and care providers in her informative long-running blog.  In the March edition,  Ms. Fins helps connect adults, families, and caregivers experiencing…

Three Community Partner worked together to share their expertise and Honoring Choices information and tools with the Middlesex West Chamber of Commerce’s Professional Women’s Network.  “We were very pleased to have a presentation at our Community Connection March Program,” says Kathleen McDonald, Executive Director. “The attendees took to heart, for themselves and their loved ones,…

We wholeheartedly welcome the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs (EOEA) as an Honoring Choices Alliance Partner. We are so pleased for the opportunity to support Secretary Alice Bonner and the EOEA staff in their commitment to help older adults and people with disabilities live and thrive. Our first collaboration is with Mary DeRoo, RN,…

Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ partners with Honoring Choices Massachusetts   The Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ (MACUCC) is joining our family of Partners to help bring Massachusetts-based health care planning information and documents to their 370 churches and 70,000 members across the Commonwealth. “Any one of us, church…

After successfully building powerful Community Partner networks on the North Shore, Metrowest, and the South Shore, Honoring Choices is excited to announce we are expanding into Worcester and the Central Massachusetts area. We hope to support and enhance the health care planning discussions that were started in Central Massachusetts through its many outstanding initiatives including…