End of Life Information Toolbox
Websites
Patient Information
JAMA Patient Page: Palliative Care (Link)
American Psychological Association. End-of-life Issues and
Care. (Link)
American College of Physicians Home Care Guide for Advanced
Cancer. (Link)
This site is for family, friends, and hospice workers caring for persons
with advanced cancer at home, when quality of life is the primary goal.
Comprehensive Care Team (CCT) website (Link)
Presents a few of the images and stories from the CCT's "Art Experiential"
project. In this project, patients, their caregivers, and their clinicians
had an opportunity, via art, to share their thoughts and feelings about
serious illness, interpersonal connection, and hope.
Hospice Web (Link)
This site helps patients locate hospice resources by zipcode.
Friends' Health Connection (FHC) (Link)
Connects people with similar health problems for the purpose of mutual
support.
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of Life Curriculum Project , a joint project of the US Veterans Administration
and SUMMIT,
Stanford University Medical School . Veterans
Administration Nationwide Palliative Care Network by
the National Library of Medicine. VJ Periyakoil, MD, Director.
