• The Hastings Center The Hastings Center specializes in bringing up ethical issues around end of life and other health concerns. |
• Medicare Learning Network - Hospice Payment System |
• Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes is the first national quality initiative recognizing that having nursing home residents and their families as participants is a key part of improving the quality of care in nursing homes. |
• Hospice Foundation of America Hospice Foundation of America provides 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.
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• Center for Practical Bioethics The Center for Practical Bioethics is a nonprofit, free-standing and independent organization nationally recognized for its work in practical bioethics. Since 1984, the Center has helped patients and their families, healthcare professionals, policymakers and corporate leaders grapple with ethically complex issues in medicine and research.
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• Advance Directives and Living Wills - Forms and Information Advance directives and living wills aren't just for seniors. Every adult should, in advance, document what their medical choices are before a health crisis occurs. These advance directive and living will forms are provided by the Michigan State Long Term Care Ombudsman Office.
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• CaringInfo.org Caring Connections, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is a national consumer and community engagement initiative to improve care at the end of life, supported by a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. |
• GrowthHouse.org Growth House, Inc., provides this award-winning portal as your international gateway to resources for life-threatening illness and end of life care. |
• Last Acts Last Acts - A Vision for Better Care at the End of Life, information from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
• Find a Hospice Locate a hospice in your area with this database provided by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. |
• Consumer Guide to Hospice Care Michigan Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
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• End of Life Issues Information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health |
• Hospice for Veterans Information provided by the Michigan Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. |
• Living One's Dying: Letting Go is Not Giving Up Presentation by Cathie Kurek-Ovshinsky, RN, PsyD, LLP, Madonna University, Livonia, Michigan |
• Michigan Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Serves as the referral and information source about hospice for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and National Government Services. They also staff an 800 number for anyone to get answers to their questions via a live person. |