Other Resources
Handbooks
Charting Your Course (PDF, 103 pages, 410 KB)
A program developed at Dartmouth-Hitchcock to improve symptom management and help with emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial issues. Includes information and activities for four major areas: problem solving, communications and social support, symptom management, and advance care planning. Developed through a grant of the National Cancer Institute, it is a project of the ENABLE II Study.
Websites
- Dying Well: Resources for people facing life-limiting illness, their families, and their professional caregivers. This is Dr. Ira Byock's website.
- Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care: A grant and technical assistance program dedicated to long-term changes to improve health care for dying people and their families addressing particular challenges to existing models of hospice and palliative care.
- Growth House: Online Community for End-of-Life Care
- Charting Your Course: A program developed at the Cancer Center as a series of workshops intended for people recently diagnosed with cancer, their family members, and friends. Hosted by growthhouse.org.
- National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
- New Hampshire Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
- Center to Advance Palliative Care
- Hospice Foundation of America
- The Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association
- End of Life Physician Education Center
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- The EPEC Project (Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care)
- Last Acts: A Vision for Better Care at the End of Life
- Americans for Better Care of the Dying
- Center to Improve Care of the Dying
- Palliative Care Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin
- Pain and Policy Studies Group at the University of Wisconsin
- StopPain.org, from the Department of Pain Medicine and Pallative Care at Beth Israel Medical Center
