Hospice, End of Life Care

Improving End-of-Life Care for Prostate Cancer Patients With Terminal Disease Wonder why US hospice patients can't receive treatment and why patients in active treatment can't enter hospice? Dr. Kenneth Pienta designed a study to add quality treatment to hospice.

Patients need better idea of when they will die, doctors say> Doctors who refer terminally ill patients to hospice care are overoptimistic, say University of Chicago researchers Elizabeth Lamont and Nicholas Christakis. Doctors expect patients entering hospice to live 5 times longer than they actually do. Death seems sudden and people lose chances to say goodbye.

American Hospice Foundation

Hospice Foundation of America "On this page you can learn about hospice care, how to select a hospice and how to locate a hospice near you."

Hospice Hands Hospice of North Central Florida.

Hospice Web Find a hospice near you (USA)

National Hospice Organization (USA)

National Hospice Organization (USA)

Growth House International gateway to resources for life-threatening illness and end of life issues.

HomeCare On-line The National Association for Home Care (NAHC) is a trade association and lobby of the home care industry and hospice. Their website includes Home Care/Hospice Locator

Americans for Better Care of The Dying dedicated to social, professional, and policy reform aimed to improve the care system for patients with serious illness, and their families. Visit theirResourcespage.

Partnership for Caring is a national nonprofit organization that partners individuals and organizations in a powerful collaboration to improve how people die in our society. Among other services, Partnership for Caring operates the only national crisis and information hotline dealing with end-of-life issues and provides state-specific living wills and medical powers of attorney. (Also called Advance Directives)

Last Acts is a call-to-action campaign designed to improve care at the end of life. "Our goals are to bring end-of-life issues out in the open and to help individuals and organizations pursue the search for better ways to care for the dying."

Compassion in Dying federation A public membership organization that "provides national leadership for client service, legal advocacy and public education to improve pain and symptom management, increase patient empowerment and self-determination and expand end-of-life choices to include aid-in-dying for terminally ill, mentally competent adults."

"We work toward improved care and expanded options at life's end, with goals of comprehensive, effective comfort care for every dying person, and legal and humane aid-in-dying if suffering is unbearable and cannot be relieved."