Aging with Dignity

The primary focus of Aging with Dignity is to improve end-of-life care by encouraging people to make medical decisions in advance of a serious illness.

Aging with Dignity was founded in 1996 by Jim Towey, who was inspired by his twelve years of work as legal counsel for Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

Founding advisory board members include former Florida Governors Lawton Chiles, Jeb Bush, and Bob Graham, Assistant Secretary on Aging Josefina Carbonell and US Senator Bill Nelson among others.

[1][2] In addition to founding Aging with Dignity, Jim Towey served as President until his appointment in 2002 as director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

Five Wishes has been translated into 29 different languages:[5] Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, Croatian, French, German, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Ilocano, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, and Vietnamese.