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Death and Dying Resources.
- American Bar Association Consumer’s Tool Kit for Health Care Advance Planning
- Anatomy Gifts Registry
- California Coalition Compassionate Care - Lots of forms and Resources and Assessment tools dealing with Death and Resident Rights
- Citizens Project – Separation of Church and State
- Coalition for Compassionate Care - POLST Physicans Orders Life Sustaning Treatment Form
- Alzheimer's Association - End of Life Care for People with Dementia in Residential Care Settings
- Caring Connections – for Advance Directives information including for every state
- Dementia Care Practice Recommendation for Assisted Living Residences and Nursing Home
- EDELE - A Resource for Data on Death and Dying
- Encouraging Comfort Care - A guide for families of people with dementia living in care facilities
- Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization
- Derek Humphry’s Chronology of Right-to-Die Events
- Derek Humphry's Self-Deliverance Blogspot (Weblog)
- Final Exit Network
- Findings about the role of spirituality and professional chaplains within palliative care by an All-Star panel of physicians, nurses, professional chaplains, social workers, professors, and university level researchers.
- Five Wishes – talking about and planning for care at the end of life
- getpalliativecare.org website – provides clear, comprehensive palliative care information for people coping with serious, complex illness.
Click here for their one page “What should you know about palliative care?”
Interview with palliative care pioneer Dr. Diane Meier , Director of The Center to Advance Palliative Care, on how people struggle with serious, sometimes terminal, illness: Watch video. Read transcript.
- Hospice
- “Legal Guide for the Seriously Ill – Seven Key Steps to Get Your Affairs in Order” published by the American Bar Association on Law and Aging for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
- MSNBC/Kaiser Health News series on the benefits of palliative care.
- National Healthcare Decisions Day – a national day to inform and act
- National Alzheimer's Association - Resources for Implementing Dementia Care Practices for End of Life
- Palliative Dementia Care Resources - Polisher Research Institute
- Palliative Care is Comfort Care - from the National Cancer Institute
- Palliativedoctors.org website – from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- Project Compassion
- Respect My Wishes
- Right to Die Society of Canada
- Spirituality resources for health care professionals from City of Hope Pain & Palliative Care Resource Center -- includes City of Hope publications and other resources relating to spirituality in health care including articles relating to cross-cultural topics. There is a listing of tools for assessing spirituality and spiritual concerns, links to organizational position statements relating to spirituality, and recommended publications.
- “Study: Living Wills Often Prove Useful” from National Public Radio
- The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) provides health care professionals with the tools, training and technical assistance necessary to start and sustain successful palliative care programs in hospitals and other health care settings.
- Transcript of national roundtable discussion of palliative care experts
- U.S. Living Will Registry
- World Federation of Right-to-Die Societies
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