Care at the End of Life

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AARP Family, Home, and Legal
Web Address: www.aarp.org/families

This American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Web site provides resource information for family, home, and legal issues. You will find information on caregiving, advance directives, hospice, living wills, estate planning, final wishes, funerals, and other end-of-life topics.


Caring Connections
1700 Diagonal Road
Suite 625
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone: 1-800-658-8898
(703) 837-1500
Fax: (703) 837-1233
E-mail: caringinfo@nhpco.org
Web Address: www.caringinfo.org

Caring Connections, a program of the U.S. National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), seeks to improve care at the end of life. Caring Connections provides free resources, including educational brochures, advance directives and hospice information, and a toll-free help line for people looking for quality end-of-life information.


Compassionate Friends National Headquarters
P.O. Box 3696
Oak Brook, IL 60522-3696
Phone: 1-877-969-0010 toll-free
(630) 990-0010
Fax: (630) 990-0246
E-mail: nationaloffice@compassionatefriends.org
Web Address: www.compassionatefriends.org

Compassionate Friends is an organization that helps family members through the grieving process when they have lost a child.


Family Caregiver Alliance
180 Montgomery Street
Suite 1100
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: 1-800-445-8106
(415) 434-3388
E-mail: info@caregiver.org
Web Address: www.caregiver.org

This organization supports and assists people who are providing long-term care at home. It also provides education, research, services, and advocacy.


Hospice Foundation of America
Phone: 1-800-854-3402
E-mail: info@hospicefoundation.org
Web Address: www.hospicefoundation.org

Resources are available at this Web site for people who are caregivers and for those who are personally facing terminal illness, death, and grief. There are also programs for health care professionals who work with people at the end of life.

From links on this Web site, you can locate a hospice and view a list of other organizations. Also, you can read a hospice and caregiving blog, an e-newsletter, and frequently asked questions. You can use a link called "Share Your Story" to post your own story for other Web site visitors to read.


NCI FactSheet
Web Address: www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Support

This Web site from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) offers links to support and coping resources. These include fact sheets on advance directives, end-of-life questions and answers, hospice, and cancer support groups.


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Author: Bets Davis, MFALast Updated: July 14, 2008
Medical Review: Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine
Shelly R. Garone, MD - Palliative Care

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