• Center for Practical Bioethics
The Center for Practical Bioethics is a nonprofit, free-standing and independent organization nationally recognized for its work in practical bioethics. Since 1984, the Center has helped patients and their families, healthcare professionals, policymakers and corporate leaders grapple with ethically complex issues in medicine and research.

• Hospice Foundation of America
Hospice Foundation of America provides leadership in the development and application of hospice and its philosophy of care with the goal of enhancing the U.S. health care system and the role of hospice within it.

• Advance Directives and Living Wills - Forms and Information 
Advance directives and living wills aren't just for seniors. Every adult should, in advance, document what their medical choices are before a health crisis occurs. These advance directive and living will forms are provided by the Michigan State Long Term Care Ombudsman Office.

• CaringInfo.org
Caring Connections, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is a national consumer and community engagement initiative to improve care at the end of life, supported by a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

• GrowthHouse.org
Growth House, Inc., provides this award-winning portal as your international gateway to resources for life-threatening illness and end of life care.

• Last Acts
Last Acts - A Vision for Better Care at the End of Life, information from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• Consumer Guide to Hospice Care 
Michigan Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

• End of Life Issues
Information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health

• Find a Hospice
Locate a hospice in your area with this database provided by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

• Hospice for Veterans
Information provided by the Michigan Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

• Living One's Dying: Letting Go is Not Giving Up 
Presentation by Cathie Kurek-Ovshinsky, RN, PsyD, LLP, Madonna University, Livonia, Michigan

• Michigan Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Serves as the referral and information source about hospice for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and National Government Services. They also staff an 800 number for anyone to get answers to their questions via a live person.

• Researchers Find Pain Widespread and Severe in Nursing Homes
Researchers Find Pain Widespread and Severe in Nursing Homes, by Scott J. Turner, George Street Journal, a publication of Brown University, Providence, RI

• Health Care Rights of the Terminally Ill 
Information provided by the Michigan Hospice & Palliative Care Organization

• Children with Life Limiting Illnesses
If you are the parent of a child who is seriously ill, or a health care professional who treats seriously ill children, this section offers help and support for you and those around you.