Executive Office on Aging Receives $25,000 Grant to Improve End-of-Life Care

HONOLULU - The Executive Office on Aging’s Kokua Mau program has received $25,000 from the HMSA Foundation for their efforts to improve end-of-life care. The grant will be used to support ongoing and new programs to provide both professionals and members of the general public information about advance care planning, pain management and resources in the community.

Kokua Mau’s vision is to build a lei of community support so the people of Hawaii can die in the place of their choice, free of pain and suffering, and in accordance with their values, traditions and beliefs. By planning ahead and making their wishes known, people can ensure that the end of their lives is not a time of crisis, but rather a time of reconciliation and peace.

The Executive Office on Aging has been recognized locally and nationally for its end-of-life care programs. In 2002 it was named a finalist in Harvard University’s Innovation in American Government Program, one of 15 innovative programs recognized across the United States.

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