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We hope that you find the following sites helpful.
HealthCare Dimensions Hospice urges
everyone, regardless of their age, to discuss their
end of life wishes with loved ones and to put them
in writing with advance directives.
Use the link below for the Massachusetts Health Care
Proxy Form and its description.
Five Wishes
www.healthcareproxy.org
The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is to provide
expert, compassionate care to children and adults with cancer while advancing
the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and
related diseases.
www.dana-farber.org
The Hospice and Palliative Care Federation of Massachusetts is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting hospice care throughout the Commonwealth.
www.hospicefed.org
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization is the largest nonprofit membership organization representing hospice and palliative care programs and professionals in the United States.
www.nhpco.org
Links to everything dealing with end-of-life care.
www.growthhouse.org
Entrance to the grief net.
www.rivendell.org
Raindrop, a story that explains death to children.
http://iul.com/raindrop/
Excellent resource for books on grief, journals, etc.
www.centering.org
Last Acts is a campaign to improve end-of-life care by a coalition of professional and consumer organizations.
www.lastacts.org
Partnership For Caring: America's Voices For The Dying
is a national nonprofit organization that partners individuals and organizations in a powerful collaboration to improve how people die in our society.
www.partnershipforcaring.org
Bill Moyers goes from the bedsides of the dying to the front lines of a movement
to improve end-of-life care in ON OUR OWN TERMS: Moyers on Dying.
www.pbs.org/wnet/onourownterms
See the grief and loss section.
www.aarp.org
Children's Hospice International - a network of support and care
for
children with life-threatening conditions and their families. CHI is
committed to hospice and recognizes the right and need for children and their
families to choose health care and support whether in their home, hospital or
hospice care facility.
www.chionline.org
To assist individuals and their loved ones to better address
end-of-life issues, the Commission has developed a Resource Guide for End of
Life Services in Massachusetts. Available on-line, a print version of the
Resource Guide will also be available in Summer 2002.
www.endoflifecommission.org
The Connecticut Hospice inaugurated hospice care in America in
1974. Since then, it has been the beacon and teacher of the growing hospice
movement throughout the nation, and beyond. Connecticut Hospice addresses
physical, spiritual, social, and emotional needs of patients with advanced
irreversible illness, and their families. Such care is provided regardless of
diagnosis and as long as the Hospice level of care is needed by the patients.
http://www.hospice.com
A source of information about end-of-life issues.
http://www.mywhatever.com/cifwriter/library/mortals/mor0.html
AAHPM is an organization of physicians and other medical
professionals dedicated to excellence in palliative medicine, the prevention and
relief of suffering among patients and families by providing education and
clinical practice standards, fostering research, facilitating personal and
professional development of its members, and by public policy advocacy.
http://www.aahpm.org
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