Care At The End Of Life: Other Places To Get Help

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

This organization supports and assists caregivers of adults who have brain impairment. It also provides education, research, services, and advocacy.

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.

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.