St. Charles Health System, a rural health system with four sites in Central Oregon, is a Pioneer Sponsor with The Conversation Project’s Conversation Ready initiative. Their interdisciplinary palliative care team has been heavily involved in…

Remember, this is not just one conversation, it’s conversations that can take place anytime, anywhere and often. Try breaking this into smaller conversations and, don’t worry, sometimes it takes a little while to get the full picture painted for your loved ones! 

Ashley Areyan is the Development and Community Engagement Director at the Institute for Human Caring at Providence St. Joseph Health, based in Los Angeles. She is working with The Conversation Project to help bring advanced…

As I sat on the beach that day — sand between my toes, with my best friends from college at my side — I thought of how conversations about how we want to live at the end of our lives can and should happen whenever the opportunity arises.

Garrick Colwell was a natural fit professionally and personally to get involved in The Conversation Project (TCP). Since 1987, he had been a hospice volunteer. Then, four years ago, his wife was diagnosed with cancer,…

Tracy Grafton, a hospice and palliative care social worker at Hackensack Meridian Health @ JFK Medical Center in central New Jersey, has always been passionate about end-of-life care. For almost a decade, she’s set up…