The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and National Hospice Foundation are pleased to direct you to a consumer focused Web site - Caring Connections, an initiative of NHPCO that provides a wide range of free materials about end-of-life care. 

If you are looking for information on care and end-of-life issues, visit www.caringinfo.org.

Planning Ahead

End-of-Life Decisions: Clinical Issues - pdf, added 9/6/07
If You or Someone You Love is Very Ill…Ask Tough Questions - pdf, added 9/6/07
Conversations Before the Crisis - pdf, added 9/6/07
Artificial Nutrition and Hydration at the End of Life - pdf, added 9/6/07

Advance Directives

End-of-Life Issues: Advance Directives - pdf, added 9/6/07
Questions and Answers: Advance Directives & End-of-Life Decisions - pdf, added 9/6/07
Oregon Advance Directive - pdf, added 9/6/07
California Advance Directive - pdf, added 9/6/07
You Have Filled Out Your Advance Directive. Now What? - pdf, added 9/6/07