Related Community Resources

 Advance Directives

• MyCare Advance Directive (English)

• Five Wishes

• California Advance Directive

• Catholic Advance Directive

• Veterans Advance Directive

• Sansum Clinic Advance Directive Assistance

• Cottage Health Advance Care Planning

• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization - California Advance Care Directive

• The Conversation Project

• Compassionate Care of Carpinteria

End-of-Life Planning

• AARP End-of-Life

• Adventures in Caring Foundation

• Aging with Dignity “Five Wishes”

• American Bar Association Consumer’s Toolkit for Healthcare Planning

• American Hospital Association “Put It In Writing”

• California Healthcare Foundation Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST)

• Caring Connections, California Advance Directive

• Caring Connections, Planning Ahead

• Center for Practical Bioethics Caring Conversation Workbook

• Dream Foundation

• Life Chronicles

Organ Donation

• Organ and Tissue Donation Resources

• One Legacy

• Donate Life California

Donation of the Body to Research

• Science Care

• Research for Life

Funeral and Cremation

• Funeral & Cremation Resources

Grief Counseling

• Hospice of Santa Barbara

• Ridley-Tree Cancer Center - Santa Barbara

• VNA Health

Bereavement Support Groups

• Hospice of Santa Barbara

• Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation

• VNA Health

Life-Changing Illness/Injury Support Groups

• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association

• Alzheimer’s Association, California Central Coast Chapter

• Jodi House Brain Injury Support Center

• Multiple Sclerosis Southern California, Channel Islands Office

• Parkinson Association of Santa Barbara

• Ridley-Tree Cancer Center - Santa Barbara

Palliative Care

• Hospice of Santa Barbara

• Cancer Center Santa Barbara

• VNA Health

• Palliative Care Consultants of Santa Barbara

• Community Palliative Care (Out Patient) (805) 690-6212

• Cottage Hospital Palliative Care Consultation (805) 569-8393

Hospice and Home Health Care

• VNA Health

• Wilshire Hospice

• Marian Hospice

• Assisted Home Health and Hospice

• Central Coast Home Health and Hospice

Residential Hospice Facilities

• Sarah House

• Serenity House, VNA Health

"Aid in Dying" Legislation

• The California End of Life Option Act

• UCLA Health Policy Brief: Implementing Physician Aid-in-Dying