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From main topics:
- Hospice Basics: A look at the members and goals of a typical hospice care team, as well as information on hospice patients and ways to pay for hospice care.
- Hospice Care: Q & A One of FamilyCare America's experts answers your questions about hospice care.
- Hospice Vs. Palliative Care: The differences between hospice and palliative care.
- Questions About Hospice Care: A checklist of questions to ask as you try to find the right hospice service for your loved one.
- The Hospice Foundation Of America: The HFA's website includes hospice information and links to hospice services across the United States.
- Volunteering In Hospice Hospice volunteers provide much-needed support and comfort to dying people and their families. - What Is Hospice? Some basic information about hospice care.
- What Is Palliative Care? Much like hospice care, palliative care programs focus on keeping terminally ill patients comfortable, while helping patients, family members, and caregivers cope with the dying process.
- A Guide To First Steps: Some actions to consider for anyone facing a serious or terminal illness.
- Activities For The Dying: Some suggestions to help you and your loved get the most out of his or her final days.
- Dying As A Spiritual Event: While many see the dying process as a medical event, its spiritual aspects can be a great source of comfort to both the dying person and his or her loved ones.
- How To Be With A Dying Person: A guide to helping a loved one through his or her final days.
- Legislating The Right To Die: A look at Oregon's controversial Death with Dignity Act, the world's first official state-sponsored physician-assisted suicide law.
- Preparing For The Death Of A Loved One: The impending death of a loved one is always a difficult emotional time, but knowing what to expect during a loved one's final days can help you prepare to handle the event.
- Taking A Spiritual Inventory: As death approaches, it's natural to take spiritual stock of one's life.
- Talking About Death: If your loved one has been diagnosed with a terminal disease, talking about death and his or her final wishes is one of the most difficult tasks you will face as a caregiver.
- Terminal Sedation For persons in extreme pain, terminal sedation—medications that induce sleep until death occurs—may ease suffering as the dying process runs its course.
- The Role Of Family Caregivers Family caregivers can play many different roles in the dying process. The Palliative Care in Central and Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union Countries Monthly Email Newsletter January 2008 | 