Community Organizing

Every person has the right to compassionate, non-profit healthcare through all of aging, illness, and dying — including the right to die on their own terms, supported by caregivers whose own rights are protected.

Care, not profit, through aging, illness, and dying.

Tell Us Your Story

If you are an elder, caregiver, or family member who has experienced abuse, neglect, or exploitation in a nursing home, assisted living facility, or hospice — we want to hear from you.

Your story matters. It can protect others, hold institutions accountable, and help build a movement for humane care.

Your confidentiality is guaranteed. We will never share your name, identifying details, or personal information without your explicit written consent. All stories are received and held by the Ars Moriendi Project under strict privacy protections.

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Why We Organize

Health care is a human right. People must come before profit. The for-profit takeover of hospitals, nursing homes, and hospice agencies is causing real harm to elders, caregivers, and communities across California and the nation.

The Ars Moriendi Project fills the space between the right-to-die movement and the single-payer movement by insisting they are the same fight: you cannot die well in a system designed to extract profit from your dying.

The Crisis Right Now

  • $3.5 billion in fraudulent hospice claims from LA County alone, with 210 agencies in a single square mile
  • 280+ hospice licenses revoked in California since Governor Newsom's moratorium
  • 324 defendants charged in the DOJ's 2025 national healthcare fraud takedown
  • Alameda Healthcare Wellness Center: 1,437 rights violations, $7.6M verdict
  • Sweetwater Care: 25,000+ staffing violations across 19 California nursing homes, $31M diverted

Yet even these staggering numbers mask the deeper failure: fines, lawsuits, and fraud charges rarely result in license suspensions, revocations, or meaningful monitoring. For-profit operators treat penalties as the cost of doing business. They pay the fine, absorb the lawsuit, and continue operating with little change. The residents still suffer. The caregivers are still understaffed and underpaid. The system grinds on.

This is why enforcement alone will never be enough. We organize to highlight these failures, pressure regulators for real accountability, and demand better care in nursing homes, hospices, and retirement communities. The numbers above are not victories — they are evidence of a system that tolerates harm.

Organize Your Community

This is how we are building and organizing in the San Francisco Bay Area — and you can do the same in your community.

We have created a step-by-step blueprint for community organizing: 12 action steps, a teach-in agenda, a strategic framework, and a 90-day launch plan. Adapt it, make it your own, and join us.

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Upcoming Events

Events are being planned. Check back soon for teach-ins, community meetings, and organizing sessions in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

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Join Us

Whether you have a story to tell or want to organize in your community, there is a place for you in this movement.

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Emergency and Reporting Resources

For emergencies, call 911 immediately.

To report or share your experience: Contact Page or info@arsmoriendiproject.org

Support Our Work

The Ars Moriendi Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your tax-deductible gift supports free resources for elders, caregivers, and communities — and fuels this organizing work.

Every dollar helps us fight for care over profit.

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The Ars Moriendi Project — advocating for elders' rights, caregiver liberation, and compassionate end-of-life care since 40 years of retirement home chaplaincy.

Care, not profit, through aging, illness, and dying.