Aging with Dignity
Provides practical information, advice and legal tools needed to ensure your end-of-life wishes and those of your loved ones will be respected.
Colorado Hospice Organization
The Colorado Hospice Organization (CHO) is a statewide, not-for-profit organization that advocates for palliative and hospice care through professional and lay education, legislative and regulatory advocacy, and technical assistance.
Colorado Palliative Care Partners
The Colorado Palliative Care Partnership (CPCP) works to advance high quality palliative care for Coloradans living with serious illness who are approaching the end of life.
Comfort Touch
Shares a nurturing, encompassing form of massage providing comfort to the elderly and the chronically ill.
Innovations in End-of-Life-Care
Features peer-reviewed promising practices in end-of-life care in this bimonthly online journal.
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Seeks to improve end of life care and expand access to hospice care, profoundly enhancing quality of life for people dying in America and their loved ones.
Partnership for Caring: America's Voices for the Dying
Offers extensive end-of-life resources and operates the only national crisis and informational hotline dealing with end-of-life issues and provides state-specific living wills and medical powers of attorney.
American Academy of Cancer Pain Initiatives
Dedicated to promoting cancer pain relief nationwide.
American Pain Foundation
Offers an online resource center for people with pain, their families, friends, caregivers.
AgeNet Eldercare Network
Offers consumer information for seniors and caregivers. Includes an eldercare locator to find resources in your community.
Alzheimer's Association
Click on Carefinder to discover what good care is and how to find it in your community. Includes information on planning ahead, care options, resources, and even an interactive tool to help in screening caregivers.
Caregiver.com
Provides stories by caregivers, tips and information on different aspects of caregiving as well as a discussion forum, resource directory and weekly online newsletter.
Family Caregiving 101
A good first stop for new caregivers, this website offers tips on long-distance care, involving siblings, finding respite care and dealing with financial worries. It also allows caregivers to post their stories and read the stores of others.
National Family Caregiver's Association
Offers support, information and education about caregiving as well as helpful tips and resources.
Crisis, Grief and Healing
Information, stories, message board, and resources for general loss, child loss, sibling loss, pregnancy loss.
Compassionate Friends
Support for parents, grandparents and siblings of a child who has died.
GriefLink
GriefLink is a haven of educational and practical information for many types of relationship loses (e.g., stillbirth, gay partner) stemming from wide variety of occurrences (e.g., organ donation, workplace) and among a range of groups (e.g., Vietnam Vets, indigenous grief). The site was developed as a joint project between the National Association for Loss and Grief (NALAG) and the Department of General Practice at the University of Adelaide in South Australia.
GriefNet
Information, support groups, resources for a variety of losses.
GriefLossRecovery.com (GLR)
Offers support and a safe place for bereaved people to share their grief and mourning--emotionally, physically and spiritually.
Growth House
Offers grief support, information on eldercare and end-of-life care. Special pages for bereaved families, natal and infant loss, kids’ grief, suicide, lesbian and gay issues at end of life.
Healing Circles
Healing Circles is dedicated to providing a safe and healing environment. It is our mission to empower children, teens, and their families to find the capacity and wisdom within themselves to integrate grief into their lives at their own pace.
Sudden / Other Infant Death
Support and information for those who have been touched by the tragedy of SIDS/OID.
Widows Support
Information, stories, coping tips and resources for widowed persons
Education for Physicians on End-of-Life-Care
Seeks to educate all physicians on the essential clinical competencies required to provide quality end-of-life care.
End-of-Life Nursing Education Resource Center
Seeks to provide a comprehensive, national education program to improve end-of-life care by nurses.
End-of-Life Physician Education Resource Center
Provides a central repository for educational materials and information about end of life (EOL) issues for physician educators.
Hospice & Palliative Nurses Association
Facilitates the exchange information, experiences, and ideas; to promote understanding of the specialties of hospice and palliative nursing; and to study and promote hospice and palliative nursing research.
Long Term Care Provider
Resource for professionals in the chronic care industry- Information on assisted living, hospice, dementia care, nursing, ambulatory aids, infusion and more.
Americans For Better Care of the Dying
Promotes social reform to improve end of life care.
Partnership for Caring: America's Voices for the Dying
National non-profit organization devoted to raising consumer expectations and demand for excellent end-of-life care. Offers resources for talking about end-of-life choices, the process of healthcare agency and state-specific advance directives.
Project on Death in America
Seeks to understand and transform the culture and experience of dying and bereavement through initiatives in research, scholarship, the humanities, and the arts, and to foster innovations in the provision of care, public education, professional education, and public policy.
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
Promotes long-term changes in the health care system to improve care for dying persons and their families.
Supportive Care of the Dying
Promotes cultural change that embraces supportive care, compassionate relief of suffering and pain, and symptom management for helping people living with life-threatening illness.
Aging with Dignity
Review and order the Five Wishes in English and Spanish
Caring Info
Download your state’s advance directives forms
U.S. Living Will Registry
U.S. Living Will Registry
American Bar Association’s Commission on Law and Aging.
Click on “The Consumer’s Tool Kit for HealthCare Decisionmaking Worksheets”
Center for Practical Bioethics Care
The Center for Practical Bioethics Care planning process “Caring Conversations” in English and Spanish
Colorado Hospice
Click on “Resources” for end-of-life information
Hospice Foundation
Information on ethical dilemmas at the end of life
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Click on “Hospice and Palliative Care Information” to “End-of-Life Care Advance Care Planner”
AARP
Click on “Care and Family” then “End of Life”
Web MD
Search end-of-life articles and information
Put It In Writing
American Hospital Association site with forms and information on advance directives
