Category: Palliative Care

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• Children's Hospice International   [rate it] [review it]
  Provides a network of support and care for children with life-threatening conditions and their families. Membership information, publications, guidelines for how to tell children and discussion board.

• Crossing the Creek   [rate it] [review it]
  A practical guide to dying process for the dying and caregivers, written by a nurse. Explains normal changes, interventions and the work of dying.

• Growth House   [rate it] [review it]
  Resources for bereavement and grief, death and dying, death with dignity, euthanasia, hospice, palliative care, suicide, terminal illness, AIDS, HIV, and related topics.

• Hospice Care Ring   [rate it] [review it]
  A place for hospice workers, caregivers, and people who know first hand about grief and healing to come together to share ideas, and help each other.

• Hospice Hands Web Ring   [rate it] [review it]
  Includes websites that pertain to compassionate care for the dying and bereaved. Sites included may offer information to patients, caregivers, those who are grieving a loss, volunteers, or professionals.

• Stop Pain   [rate it] [review it]
  Consumer and professional health education on the treatment of chronic pain plus information on palliative care for those with long-term illness.

• Symptoms in Terminal Illness   [rate it] [review it]
  Articles, definitions and issues in terminal illness.

• Tennessee End of Life Partnership   [rate it] [review it]
  A nonprofit organization, aiming at continually defining and promoting optimum practices in end of life care. Offers membership information, updates and related links.

• University of Ottawa Institute of Palliative Care   [rate it] [review it]
  A Canadian center for advanced training, research and scholarship in palliative and hospice care. The institute's mission is to increase the quality of life for people with terminal illness. [English, French]