Links to Additional Resources
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Advance Directives in Four Steps
Making your end-of-life wishes known does not have to be difficult. Here are four steps you'll want to take to make your wishes known, legal and enforceable.
Advance Directives in 50 states
Download your states advance directives. Caring Connections provides free advance directives and instructions for each state that can be opened as a PDF (Portable Document Format) file.
Advance Directives - Five Wishes Form
Five Wishes has become one of America’s most popular living will because it is written in everyday language and helps start and structure important conversations about care in times of serious illness. Printable and online version of Five Wishes form available for $5.00.
Alzheimer's Association
The Alzheimer’s Association works on a global, national and local level to enhance care and support for all those affected by Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
Caregiver Support and Resources for caregivers of the ill and elderly that provide useful information, products, seminars, care management, consulting service and more.
National Family Caregiver Association
Inspiration, perspective and advice for you from family caregivers of loved ones with Alzheimer's
In Care of Dad
A one step resource for caregivers providing care options, how to, emotional support, illness guide
and medicare- financial information.
Family Caregiver Alliance
The alliance provides information and resources for families, caregivers, professionals, policy makers, and
the media. It focuses on Alzheimer's disease, stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's disease, ALS, and other disorders and long-term care concerns.
Eldercare.com
ElderCare.com offers families & individuals looking for senior care a safe way to connect with a network of compassionate caregivers offering home care, nursing, companionship, respite care and other senior support
services. It is a source for elder care providers in over 30,000 cities across the USA & Canada!
Caregiver.com
Caregiver Media Group is a provider of information, support and guidance for family and professional caregivers.
Founded in 1995, they produce Today's Caregiver magazine, the first national magazine dedicated to caregivers.
Children's Books about Death and Dying
Books to read with children to help discuss death and dying.
Children - How to Talk about Death and Dying
Topics include helping young surviving children, talking to children about death, when a parent dies, helping teenagers cope with grief and more.
Diversity Rx
A nonprofit organization that promotes language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for minority,
immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities.
Doula Program to Accompany and Comfort
The Doula program is a nonprofit organization located in New York City that specializes in training and supervising volunteers who visit individuals facing the end of life without family or friends. They visit in healthcare facilities, at home and in hospitals. This program was created in response to the needs of individuals with critical illness. The Doula Program also functions nationally and internationally as consultants.
End of Life Care Wishes- How To Have the Conversation
The Conversation Project outlines and explains the basic skills for having conversations with patients and their families about end-of-life care wishes
Ethical Wills
Unlike traditional wills that transfer worldly possessions, an ethical will bequeaths values, ideas, and personal reflections to family members and other loved ones. Learn how to create one at this website.
Facts and Figures about How We D
Facts and Figures about How We Die
Information gathered by Public Broadcasting System for a Frontline show about death and dying.
National Geriatric Case Manager Directory
What you need to know about selecting and working with a case manager, certification and consumer resources.
Hospice Foundation of America
HFA is a nonprofit organization that promotes hospice care and works to educate professionals and the families they serve in issues relating to caregiving, terminal illness, loss, and bereavement.
Hospice Net
Hospice Net is a nonprofit organization which provides information on hospice care, terminal illness, end of life issues, caregiving and grief. and support to patients and families facing life-threatening illnesses. It also provides information about talking to children about death
Metta Institute for Sacred End of Life Care
Metta Institute was established to provide education on spirituality in dying. Inspired by the Buddhist tradition they encourage the integration of the spiritual dimensions of living, dying and transformation, through professional training, educational programs and materials.
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
The NHPCO is the largest nonprofit membership organization representing hospice and palliative care programs and professionals in the United States. The site has a search engine for hospices around the country by state and county, as well as facts and figures about US palliative care, job openings, and educational opportunities for professionals.
Social Security Administration
Information on retirement, disability and death benefits including how to sign up.
U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs
The VA administers a variety of benefits and services that provide financial and other forms of assistance to Service members, Veterans, their dependents and survivors.
Verywell.com's Death and Dying site
This site provides information, current articles , and collects resources on a variety of related topics, from spirituality to euthanasia to teen grief to signs of dying and more. Oriented to the general public.
The following links are provided for your reference. Endoflifewisdom.org does not endorse any of the following websites and/or companies and cannot attest to the accuracy of the information provided by third-party sites or any other links.
To access the sites just click the blue-green words and you will be directed to each site's link.
Advance Directives in Four Steps
Making your end-of-life wishes known does not have to be difficult. Here are four steps you'll want to take to make your wishes known, legal and enforceable.
Advance Directives in 50 states
Download your states advance directives. Caring Connections provides free advance directives and instructions for each state that can be opened as a PDF (Portable Document Format) file.
Advance Directives - Five Wishes Form
Five Wishes has become one of America’s most popular living will because it is written in everyday language and helps start and structure important conversations about care in times of serious illness. Printable and online version of Five Wishes form available for $5.00.
Alzheimer's Association
The Alzheimer’s Association works on a global, national and local level to enhance care and support for all those affected by Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
Caregiver Support and Resources for caregivers of the ill and elderly that provide useful information, products, seminars, care management, consulting service and more.
National Family Caregiver Association
Inspiration, perspective and advice for you from family caregivers of loved ones with Alzheimer's
In Care of Dad
A one step resource for caregivers providing care options, how to, emotional support, illness guide
and medicare- financial information.
Family Caregiver Alliance
The alliance provides information and resources for families, caregivers, professionals, policy makers, and
the media. It focuses on Alzheimer's disease, stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's disease, ALS, and other disorders and long-term care concerns.
Eldercare.com
ElderCare.com offers families & individuals looking for senior care a safe way to connect with a network of compassionate caregivers offering home care, nursing, companionship, respite care and other senior support
services. It is a source for elder care providers in over 30,000 cities across the USA & Canada!
Caregiver.com
Caregiver Media Group is a provider of information, support and guidance for family and professional caregivers.
Founded in 1995, they produce Today's Caregiver magazine, the first national magazine dedicated to caregivers.
Children's Books about Death and Dying
Books to read with children to help discuss death and dying.
Children - How to Talk about Death and Dying
Topics include helping young surviving children, talking to children about death, when a parent dies, helping teenagers cope with grief and more.
Diversity Rx
A nonprofit organization that promotes language and cultural competence to improve the quality of health care for minority,
immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities.
Doula Program to Accompany and Comfort
The Doula program is a nonprofit organization located in New York City that specializes in training and supervising volunteers who visit individuals facing the end of life without family or friends. They visit in healthcare facilities, at home and in hospitals. This program was created in response to the needs of individuals with critical illness. The Doula Program also functions nationally and internationally as consultants.
End of Life Care Wishes- How To Have the Conversation
The Conversation Project outlines and explains the basic skills for having conversations with patients and their families about end-of-life care wishes
Ethical Wills
Unlike traditional wills that transfer worldly possessions, an ethical will bequeaths values, ideas, and personal reflections to family members and other loved ones. Learn how to create one at this website.
Facts and Figures about How We D
Facts and Figures about How We Die
Information gathered by Public Broadcasting System for a Frontline show about death and dying.
National Geriatric Case Manager Directory
What you need to know about selecting and working with a case manager, certification and consumer resources.
Hospice Foundation of America
HFA is a nonprofit organization that promotes hospice care and works to educate professionals and the families they serve in issues relating to caregiving, terminal illness, loss, and bereavement.
Hospice Net
Hospice Net is a nonprofit organization which provides information on hospice care, terminal illness, end of life issues, caregiving and grief. and support to patients and families facing life-threatening illnesses. It also provides information about talking to children about death
Metta Institute for Sacred End of Life Care
Metta Institute was established to provide education on spirituality in dying. Inspired by the Buddhist tradition they encourage the integration of the spiritual dimensions of living, dying and transformation, through professional training, educational programs and materials.
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
The NHPCO is the largest nonprofit membership organization representing hospice and palliative care programs and professionals in the United States. The site has a search engine for hospices around the country by state and county, as well as facts and figures about US palliative care, job openings, and educational opportunities for professionals.
Social Security Administration
Information on retirement, disability and death benefits including how to sign up.
U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs
The VA administers a variety of benefits and services that provide financial and other forms of assistance to Service members, Veterans, their dependents and survivors.
Verywell.com's Death and Dying site
This site provides information, current articles , and collects resources on a variety of related topics, from spirituality to euthanasia to teen grief to signs of dying and more. Oriented to the general public.