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- A Place for Mom.com - Senior Care - We help moms and dads across the nation find care for seniors. Seach from over 25,000 communities or consult one of our family advisors for personal assistance.
- Eternal Reefs for Hospice Clients - Eternal Reefs creates permanent living environmental memorials that honor a loved one by creating new marine habitate for fish and other sealife.
- HealthStream Palliative Care Course - Continuing medical education about palliative care from HealthStream Primary Care. One of many excellent online CME courses. Click here to learn more.
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- The Aid in Dying Communication Project
- Provides on-line educational materials and consulting services to help physicians and other health professionals improve their communication and assessment skills when working with patients who request aid-in-dying, assisted suicide, or other types of hastened death.
- Americans for Better Care for the Dying
- Seeks to achieve substantive health care reform through improved policy, professional practice, and care reimbursement.
- Before I Die
- The online component to the PBS program " Before I Die: Medical Care and Personal Choices". The program explores the medical, ethical, and social issues surrounding end-of-life care in America today.
- Center to Advance Palliative Care
- Promotes wider access to palliative care in hospitals and health systems throughout the United states.
- Centre for Bioethics - Journal of Palliative Care
- A Canadian-based, peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary forum for practical, critical thought on palliative care and palliative medicine.
- Dying Well
- The president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Dr. Ira Byock, provides excerpts from his book about resources for patients and families facing life-limiting illness.
- End of Life Physician Education Resource Center (EPERC)
- Training material and informational repository for physicians who educate about end of life (EOL) issues.
- EPEC.net: Education for Physicians on End of Life Care
- Offers details on conferences, products, resources and trainers.
- European Journal of Palliative Care
- Archived articles for medical professionals and noticeboard.
- HELP: Helpful Essential Links to Palliative Care
- A program undertaken by the University of Dundee to deal with pain, communication issues, distressing symptoms and care in the context of palliative care.
- HMS Center for Palliative Care
- Programs offered at Harvard Medical School for healthcare professionals. Located in Boston, Mass.
- Innovations in End-of-Life Care
- This on-line journal features peer-reviewed examples of promising practices in end-of-life care.
- Jenkin and McLeod
- Information about this Australian based team of consultants which design training packages for medical professionals and facilities who require a palliative care model.
- Johns Hopkins Medicine: Palliative Care
- FAQs about palliative care.
- Living Lessons(TM)
- A national initiative to increase awareness of hospice palliative care and services in Canada. The campaign is presented in partnership with the Canadian Palliative Care Association and The Glaxo Wellcome Foundation.
- LMI - Progress in Palliative Care
- A journal with an international perspective that provides a forum for rapid interchange of information on all aspects of palliative care.
- M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Symptom Control and Palliative Care
- A resource for clinical information, education, research and academic training in palliative care.
- The Network Project
- Offers teaching modules, and a newsletter to clinician educators in the areas of pain and palliative care.
- Pain and Palliative Care Reporter
- A public resource of general information on the legal aspects of pain management and end-of-life care in the United States.
- Palliative Care
- Patient resources, forums, a newsletter and professional resources are offered.
- Palliative Care Corner
- A forum to introduce both common and new palliative management strategies for physical symptoms.
- Palliative Care for Children
- American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement offers advice on the development of a pediatric palliative care plan.
- Palliative Care: Info Sheet for Seniors
- Information sheet answers some of the questions seniors frequently ask about palliative care.
- Palliative Drugs
- Provides independent information for health professionals about drugs usage in this specialty.
- Physicians for Life: Palliative Care Bulletin Board
- News and quotes about palliative care.
- Pioneer Programs in Palliative Care: Nine Case Studies
- In this report clinicians at nine hospitals describe the establishment of formal programs of palliative care.
- Program on the Medical Encounter and Palliative Care
- A research organization, affiliated with the Duke University and Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in Durham, North Carolina.
- Saint Joseph's Hospital - PalliativeProgram
- Information about palliative care and this multidisciplinary team of palliative care providers.
- Shaare Zedek Cancer Pain and Palliative Care Reference Database
- A searchable database of over 20,000 references related to cancer pain and palliative care.
- StopPain.org: Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care
- Offers information, resources on pain management, palliative care and ethical/legal issues.
- The Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care
- A center located at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital answers questions about palliative care.
- University of Ottawa Institute of Palliative Care
- 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.
- VA Faculty Leader Project
- The development of a benchmark curricula for end-of-life and palliative care for training resident physicians from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Last update: 18:03 PT, Wednesday, March 6, 2002
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