Portland Oregon Caregiving, End-of-Life, & Elder Care In-Home Support Network

In-Home Care Support

In Home Hospice - In Home Health Care - In-Home Medical Equipment - Food Delivery - Family Caregiver Daytime Respite Care - PERS Home Medical Alert Services - Mobile Medical Services

Bereavment Support Groups and Services

Bereavement Support Groups & Classes - Children's Bereavment and Grief Care

Designating End-of-Life WIshes

Advanced Directives - Dying with Dignity: End-of-Life Care

In-Home Hospice

• Southwest Home Care & Hospice
  100 E 33rd Street, Suite 201 Vancouver, WA 98663
  360-696-5100

• Serenity Palliative Care & Hospice
  6975 SW Sandburg St., Ste. 190 Portland, Oregon 97223
  503-639-0600

• Specialty Comfort Care
  503-747-3021

• Assured At Home
  503-241-0099

• Community Home Health & Hospice
  14508 NE 20th Ave #201, Vancouver, WA 98686
  360-253-4626

In-Home Health Care

• Adeo Home Care
  7145 SW Varns Street, Suite 104, Tigard OR 97223
  503-670-7260

• Adventist Health - Home Care
  503-251-6303

• Amedisys Home Health Care
  NE – 503-253-5155
  SW – 503-619-1020

• Comfort Keepers - Home Cargivers
  19365 SW 65th Ave., #205 Tualatin, OR 97062
  503-855-4415

• Home Instead Senior Care - Elder Care - Aging in Place
  East Portland – 503-335-0626
  West Portland – 503-248-0695
  Washington County – 503-530-1527
  Vancouver, WA – 360-253-6028

• Home Watch Care Givers
  503-254-8343

• Right At Home - Caregiving at Home
  503-574-3674

• To Your Home - Residential Caregiving
  13021 SE River Rd. Portland, OR 97222
  503-652-7370

• Sinai Family Home Services
  503-542-0088

In-Home Medical Equipment

• Long Term Loan Program
  104 SW Clay St, Portland, 97201
  503-233-9511

• All in One Mobility Home Medical Equipment
  12833 NE Airport Way, Portland, OR 97230
  503-255-5005

• Adventist Health Home Medical Equipment
  5835 NE 122nd Ave, #105, Portland, OR 97230
  503-261-6070

Food Delivery

• Option 1 Nutrition Solutions - Food Delivery
  1-888-885-2386

• The Grocery Bag - Residental Grocery Delivery
  503-245-4595

• Store to Door of Oregon - Home Food Delivery Services
  2145 NW Overton St., Portland, OR 97210
  503-200-3333

Family Caregiver Daytime Respite Care

• Lambert House
  2600 S.E. 170th Ave., Portland OR 97236
  503-760-2075

• Marie Smith Health & Social Center
  4616 N. Albina Ave. Portland, OR
  503-335-9980

PERS - Home Medical Alert Services

• Columbia Medical Alarm Inc.
  Offering Philips Lifeline service to the Portland / Vancouver Areas
  503-644-4736

• See more options for personal home medical alert systems.
  Many are nationwide for coverage and some offer spousal or second resident coverage for no additional cost.

Mobile Medical Services

• American Medical Response
  503-231-6300

Advanced Directives

• Compassion and Choices of Oregon Advanced Directives Forms
  A variety of forms available for download incluing dementia provision, values worksheets, and more.

• Oregon POLST Registry - Advanced Directives - Medical Wishes
  3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Rd. CDW-EM Portland, OR 97239
  503-418-4083

• Five Wishes for End-of-Life Advanced Directives
  FIve Wishes lets your family and doctors know your final wishes.

• US Living Will Registry for Documenting End-of-Life Wishes
  Online advance directive registry, offers secure access of advance directives to healthcare professionals anytime, anywhere.

Bereavement Support & Classes

• Bereavement Coordinator - Grief and Loss Support
  6410 N.E. Halsey St., Suite 300 Portland, OR 97213
  503-215-2273

• Portland Adventist Medical Center Grief Classes/Support Meetings
  10123 S.E. Market St. Portland, Oregon 97216
  503-251-6105

• Providence St. Vincent Hospital & Medical Ctr.
  10 to 11:30 a.m., first and third Tuesdays, Pastoral Care Conference Room
  7 to 8:30 p.m., second and fourth Tuesdays, Conference Room 3
  9205 S.W. Barnes Rd., Portland, Oregon 97225
  503-291-2261

• Tuality Community Hospital
  Surviving the Loss
  335 S.E. 8th, Hillsboro, Oregon 97123
  503-681-1700

• Health & Lifestyle Center
  1885 NW 185th Ave, Aloha, OR 97006
  503-215-6595

• SW Washington Medical Center
  Grief and Bereavement Support Group
  P.O. Box 1600
  Vancouver, Washington 98668

• Providence Portland Medical Center
  11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., first and third Tuesdays, Pastoral Care Conference Room
  4:30 to 6 p.m., second and fourth Tuesdays, Pastoral Care Conference Room
  4805 NE Glisan St., Portland, OR 97213
  503-215-1111

• Providence Willamette Falls Medical Center
  1:30 to 3 p.m., second and fourth Tuesdays, Providence Willamette Falls Community Center
  1500 Division St., Oregon City, OR 97045
  503-656-1631

Children's Grief and Bereavment Care

• Legacy Hospice
  2275 NE McDaniel Lane McMinnville, OR 97128
  503-220-1000

• Camp Erin - Grief Support for Kids
  6410 NE Halsey St., Suite 300 Portland, OR 97213
  503-215-2273

• Me, Too. and Company Children's Grief Support Group
  P. O. Box 10796, Portland, OR 97296
  503-228-2104

Physician Aid in Dying - Resources and Information

Dying with Dignity

• Compassion & Choices - End of Life Choice - Advanced Directives

• Compassion of Oregon - Local Choices at End-of-Life

• Death with Dignity - End of Life Wishes

• Exit International - A Peaceful Death is Everybody's Right

• Final Exit Network - Supporting Human Right to Death with Dignity

• Sacred Dying - Spirituality, through presence and ritual, into the physical act of dying

• Dignity in Dying - Demanding Greater Choice and Control at End of Life

Blog

• American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medice - Blog

• Kairos Network Blog

• Before I Die I Want To...

Audio Blog

• NPR - The End of Life - Exploring Death in America

Articles

• 2011 - May 14: Chicago Sun Times - "Death with Dignity"

• 2011 - January 24: New York Times - "With Poem, Broaching the Topic of Death"

• 2010 - October 7: Prospect Magazine - "Matters of life & Death"

• 2010 - June 18: New York Times - "What Broke My Father's Heart"

• 2010 - January 11: New York Times - "Facing End-of-Life Talks, Doctors Choose to Wait"

• 2009 - September 14: Newsweek - "The Bitter End"

Ref

• Oregon's Death with Dignity Act

• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - Organ Donation

• Hemlock Society

• Michigan - Department of Human Services