HFA coordinated an 18-month nationwide public awareness campaign on the importance of talking about end-of-life preferences and goals with loved ones and medical professionals. The project was underwritten by the John and Wauna Harman Foundation and educated more than 60,000 people across all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Over 500 hosts partnered with local community organizations to hold 1,430 screenings of the PBS FRONTLINE film Being Mortal. An audience discussion followed each screening and 96% of audience members left the event with plans to take action and discuss their end-of-life preferences for the first time.
HFA’s Being Mortal project was extended twice and ended on June 30, 2017. Due to continuing and widespread interest in the project, HFA is making the basic materials available to organizations that would like to bring a screening to their community.
Other HFA projects
Project Talk Trial
Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Project Talk Trial is a five-year national, randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate different approaches for engaging underserved individuals in end-of-life care planning. The goal of the Trial is to evaluate the impact of several approaches to promote advance care planning in underserved populations (such as ethnic…
Autism & Grief Project
With generous support from the NLM Family Foundation, HFA has developed autismandgrief.org, a website to foster a healthier grief experience for adults with autism. The website empowers adults with autism by acknowledging their varied grief reactions and provides information that family, friends, and professionals can use to provide effective support. The five-year project, now in…
Using Facebook to Encourage Advance Care Planning
With funding from the John and Wauna Harman Foundation, HFA is exploring the efficacy of using Facebook groups to facilitate advance care planning (ACP) concerning their end-of-life healthcare wishes, emphasizing the need to make ACP more accessible to underserved populations. The pilot will launch in late 2024.