LibGuides: Spirituality: End-of-Life/Grieving/Loss

Hospice & Palliative Resources

American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
AAHPM is the professional organization for physicians specializing in hospice and palliative medicine, nurses, and other healthcare providers. Since 1988, the Academy has dedicated itself to advancing hospice and palliative medicine and improving the care of patients with serious illness. Our activities focus on education and training, resources, networking, and advocacy.
Hospice Foundation of America
The mission of Hospice Foundation of America is to provide leadership in the development and application of hospice and its philosophy of care with the goal of enhancing the U.S. health care system and the role of hospice within it.
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) is the largest nonprofit membership organization representing hospice and palliative care programs and professionals in the United States. The organization is committed to improving end of life care and expanding access to hospice care with the goal of profoundly enhancing quality of life for people dying in America and their loved ones.

Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes to improve health care for dying people and their families.
Center to Advance Palliative Care
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) is a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of quality palliative care services for people facing serious illness. Browse our site to learn more.
Get Palliative Care
Getpalliativecare.org provides clear, comprehensive palliative care information for people coping with serious, complex illness. Key components of the site include a Palliative Care Provider Directory of Hospitals, a definition of palliative care and detailed descriptions of what palliative care does and how to get it. It also provides an interactive questionnaire to assist you in determining whether palliative care might be appropriate for you or a loved one.
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...comprehensive palliative care information for people coping with serious complex illness.
MedlinePlus - Palliative Care

Before I Die
In an effort to generate a national dialogue about dying in America and to explore the profoundly personal decisions that all of us must inevitably confront, this one-hour special is presented by Fred Friendly Seminars and Thirteen/WNET in New York, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Choice is an Illusion
from the website - "a website opposing assisted suicide and euthanasia, sometimes called "death with dignity" or "aid in dying""
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"A new web site launched this week provides information on the risk of assisted suicide to these and other groups, as well as help in assessing the threat of legalizing assisted suicide in various states. The web site entitled, Choice is an Illusion, was created by two folks with deep knowledge and experience in this area: Alex Schadenberg and Margaret Dore, along with William Reichel, MD."
MedlinePlus - End of Life
MedlinePlus' resources for end-of-life planning.