FOUNDING PARTNERS
AARP Idaho
Idaho Health Care Association
Idaho State Hospice Organization
National Association of Social Workers Idaho Chapter

A Better Way Coalitiom, Inc.
chose the Monarch butterfly

as a symbol of the transforming
work of the Coalition and of the transformation available to all people as they near the end of life. The Monarch butterfly is the Idaho state insect.

Jill Rice, LSW
A Better Way Coalition, Inc.
P.O. Box 496
Boise, ID 83701
Phone: 208.343.9735

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A Better Way Coalition, Inc.
Receives Funding for The Right
Choice at the Right Time Community
Engagement Campaign!

A Better Way Coalition, Inc. announces receipt of a grant from the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation, Inc. in support of The Right Choice at the Right Time Community Engagement Campaign. President, Harry L. Bettis expressed these thoughts in the award letter: “We evaluated many proposals and decided to support the positive impact your organization is making in our great state. Keep up the good work!” The grant, together with gifts from Saint Alphonsus, St. Luke’s and a local business brings $9,000 to fund the development and production of The Right Choice at the Right Time publication. It will to be offered to all Idaho libraries and Area Agencies on Aging in celebration of November – National Family Care Giver and National Hospice Month. With campaign partner the Idaho State Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, regional educational events will also be offered for professionals and the public as part of the community engagement campaign.

The campaign publication will contain material on Conversations Before the Crisis from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Photographs and stories are used as an effective tool to encourage people to start conversations about wishes for care at the end of life. Information and “FAQs” about advance care planning is the centerpiece of the publication with a living will and durable power of attorney for health care document and forms to register it in the Idaho Health Care Directives Registry. Information about the new Idaho Do Not Resuscitate program – the POST (Physician’s Orders for Scope of Treatment) will also be included. “Hospice Care – Medicare’s Best Kept Secret!” will provide key information about hospice and this important benefit (only 43% of respondents in the Idaho statewide end-of-life survey knew of this benefit.)

Other organizations and individuals that want to join the community engagement campaign with a financial gift or in-kind services should contact Cheryl Simpson-Whitaker at cksw46@msn.com or 208-794-1479.

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POST Jewelry
Order Form

Portable DNR Program (POST)

New Spanish Resources available through NHPCO

A Better Way Coalition, Inc. has
achieved 501 (c)(3)
nonprofit status as
recognized by the IRS!!

End of Life Leaders
form new Coalition
Board of Directors

Idaho Living Will
and Durable Power
of Attorney for
Health Care Effective

Announcing Key
Findings Idaho
2006 Statewide End-of-Life Survey

Idaho Health Care
Directives Registry
launched Jan 2007

A Better Way Coalition, Inc.: Life on Our Own Terms is all about promoting compassionate end-of-life care in Idaho. We are a statewide end-of-life coalition providing knowledge, tools, and mechanisms for palliative end-of-life care. The whole person – body, mind, and spirit, heart and soul is the focus of our work.

Membership in A Better Way Coalition, Inc. is open to local and statewide organizations and individuals in Idaho. We believe that together we can achieve improvements in end-of-life care that we could not achieve alone. The Coalition is recipient of the National Emerging Coalition Award of Excellence from Rallying Points, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative. We are changing the face of end of life in Idaho – won't you join us?

This website is dedicated to caregivers providing professional and personal end-of-life care in Idaho and to the people they serve. It contains a multitude of resources about compassionate care for people as they complete life. If you are a family caregiver, a professional, or are living& the last chapter of life there is something here for you.

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DISCLAIMER - This website is a community service provided by A Better Way Coalition, Inc.: Life on Our Own Terms. All links and references are provided for information only. We do not endorse any individual, agency, product, service, or treatment.

A Better Way Coalition, Inc. Receives Funding for The Right Choice at the Right Time Community Engagement Campaign!

A Better Way Coalition, Inc.
Receives Funding for The Right
Choice at the Right Time Community
Engagement Campaign!