New Hampshire’s hospice and palliative care professionals and aging-service providers are engaged. So too are many of the state’s faith communities.

From March 29th to July 10th, we convened 8 Citizen Forums around the state of New Hampshire, and the results have been invaluable.

These Forums have enabled citizens to consider and decide what policy makers should do to improve care and support for frail elders, people who may be dying, and family caregivers.

The following Citizen Forums have been completed.

March 29 - Littleton
Apr 24 - Laconia
May 3 - Manchester
June 13 - Nashua
June 18 - Keene
June 19 - Concord
June 20 - Portsmouth
July 10 - Lebanon

You can view a preliminary version of the RESULTS HERE

At the Forums, citizens:

Consider recommendations from expert panels and advocacy groups
Generate data, using the latest participant-response technology, on what they want presidential candidates to incorporate into their positions and policies.
Lend their strong, clear voices to those whose own voices are weakened by advanced age or illness and are not heard by the body politic

A Reclaiming the End of Life Report on the findings from the Citizen Forums is being compiled. The Report will form the basis of specific questions for candidates, and will be disseminated through this website, in publications, and in media briefings. More importantly, these questions will be directly posed to candidates by the hundreds (perhaps, soon, thousands) of people who have signed up to participate in the Initiative.

It’s time that we invest citizen and consumer energy in a responsible fashion to create the changes that are needed, necessary, and achievable in caring for our ill and aged.

The results are already invaluable. View results in Citizen Voices.