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Americans
for Better Care of the Dying (ABCD)
www.abcd-caring.com
Dedicated to social, professional and policy reform aimed at improving
the care system for patients with serious illness and for their families.
National
Hospice Work Group
www.nhwg.org
Dedicated to leading edge hospice care for all dying citizens of the United
States.
Dying
Well
www.dyingwell.org
Resources and referrals to organizations, Web sites and books to help
people with life-threatening illnesses and their families to live as fully
as possible during the dying process.
Growth
House: Guide to Death, Dying, Grief, Bereavement and End-of-Life Resources
www.growthhouse.org
Search engine offers access to the Internet's most comprehensive collection
of reviewed resources for end-of-life care.
Last Acts
www.lastacts.org
A national coalition to improve care and caring near the end-of-life.
The goal of the coalition is to bring death-related issues out in the
open and help individuals and organizations pursue better ways to care
for the dying.
National
Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
www.nhpco.org
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization is the largest nonprofit
membership organization representing hospice and palliative care programs
and professionals in the United States.
Project
on Death in America
www.soros.org/death
Dedicated to understanding and transforming the culture and experience
of dying and bereavement through initiatives in research, scholarship,
the humanities and the arts, and to fostering innovations in the provision
of care, public education, professional education and public policy.
National
Family Caregivers Association
www.nfcacares.org
Providing options to caregivers.
Center
to Advance Palliative Care
www.capcmssm.org
This site is the Center to Advance Palliative Care which is a Robert Wood
Johnson funded grant to advance palliative care to patients not quite
ready for hospice.
Drkoop.com
www.drkoop.com
This site gives you practical information on all types of health care
issues. It even has an "ask the doctor" option.
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