End Well Foundation

End Well is a movement.

We believe all people should experience the end of life in a way that matches their values and goals.

Our goal is to create a cultural shift to normalize conversations about illness, caregiving and mortality throughout life. Our platform supports new collaborations, systems, protocols, products and fosters new and existing networks of support to make the end of life more human-centered for all. Join us.

Design + Technology -- How can we apply empathic design principles across the entire spectrum of the end of life experience? How might emergent technologies offer new propositions for models of care?

Health Care -- How can we align 21st-century health system goals of better health outcomes and high-quality, cost-effective care with a fulfilling caregiving and end of life experience for everyone?

Community -- What are today’s cultural, spiritual and traditional belief systems and practices that might more fully empower our relationship with mortality?

It Happens to everyone.

But despite that, we don’t talk about it. Illness, Caregiving, and Death have become a medicalized experience hidden away in hospitals and institutions. It’s a cultural taboo — a sign of failure for doctors and society alike, an experience we don’t think about, talk about, or plan for. Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, MD founded End Well to bring people, across all disciplines, so we can collectively ignite a conversation about how we live and how we die.

That’s why Dr. Ungerleider is obsessed with moving the dial on improving the end of life experience. She found herself attending healthcare conferences across the country and founded a palliative care education fund to train doctors in her hospital. Although inspired by the incredible work that was happening, she knew there was a missing piece. You! Join the movement to transform living well until the very end experience for everyone.