Karen Orloff Kaplan

KAREN ORLOFF KAPLAN is a public health professional and end-of-life care advocate who co-authored Staying in Charge: Practical Plans for the End of Your Life with Christopher Lukas and co-created the PBS program Whose Death Is It Anyway?

Kaplan holds an M.P.H. and Sc.D. and has served as President and CEO of Last Acts Partnership, a nonprofit focused on improving care for the dying. She previously served as director and then president of Choice in Dying, which evolved into Partnership for Caring. Her academic work has appeared in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Karen lives in Washington, D.C.

Karen Orloff Kaplan’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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