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Resources

Get Palliative Care
This website provides additional information about palliative care.

Coalition for Compassionate Care
This website contains helpful information for patients and their families on advance care planning.  This includes topics on advance directives in multiple languages including Chinese and Spanish.  This website also discusses POLST (physician orders for life- sustaining treatment) with answers to some of the most frequently asked questions.

Hospice Foundation of America
This website contains general information about hospice and commonly asked questions about hospice services. It also contains information for caregivers, questions about end of life, and information on grief and bereavement.

NCI Website on palliative care
This is an excellent website on all you need to know about palliative care including symptom management, advance care planning, financial and legal information, and survivorship, living with and beyond cancer.

NCI Website on end of life care
This is an excellent resource with information on what to expect at the end of life.

Advance Health Care Directive

Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST)