Find out how to set up a free web site to keep your friends and family members informed while a loved one is on hospice services.

Sponsored by "Home Instead," a national company offering in-home professional caregiving services. Developed with advice from national leaders in caregiver research and support. Includes caregiver stress assessment.

Education and advocacy for caregivers, including factsheets, handbooks, and policy briefs.

Stories and articles about hospice and palliative care, end-of-life experiences, caregiving, and bereavement; review of media coverage on those topics.

Developed by Boston University researchers, an online questionnaire aimed at seeing if people are safe to live alone without formal help.

A free, private, web-based community to organize family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues during times of need.

Advice for families and health care providers on planning safe and smooth transitions for patients as they move to a new setting.

How to organize a group to care for someone who is seriously ill.

PDF with directions and forms for Health Care Proxy, Living Will and others

Online edition of the book by Joanne Lynn, M.D. and Joan Harrold, M.D., an authoritative consumer guide to end-of-life care.

Guidance for advance care planning

Designed to help people with living wills, written in everyday language and designed to help start and structure important conversations about care.

Advance care planning guides and forms. Information in English and Spanish.

Series of articles from the American Bar Association, includes suggested scripts for difficult conversations and a set of questions to explore your priorities and values.

Information for people living with serious illness, for caregivers, and for those grieving a loss.

How To Write An Obituary – Tips and Ideas

Free obituary listings

Bill Moyers' PBS show looks at ways to make dying more humane.

Resources from Dr. Ira Byock, a palliative care physician and advocate for improved end-of-life care. Includes discussion guide and FAQ on the end-of-life experience.

A Michigan State University resource for patients and families to learn about the practical, emotional, spiritual and medical issues faced by those dealing with advanced illness.

Advocacy group exploring reforms in end-of-life care.

An international nonprofit devoted to encouraging gratefulness as a way to restore courage, reconcile relationships, and heal the Earth. Visitors can "light" a virtual candle in memory of a loved one and send inspirational e-cards.

A veterinary association looks at applying the principals of hospice to pet care.

Advice from PAW (The Partnership for Animal Welfare) on lining up caretakers and allotting money for the care of your pets.

Services for seniors include respite care, caregiver counseling, and geriatric care management to address the common challenges that confront caregivers.

Information & referral, benefits advisement, support groups, and other services for people with disabilities.

Resource guides on financial & legal services, housing, health programs, leisure activities, support services and medications. Caregivers' guides on grandparents raising grandchildren; Alzheimer's, developmental disabilities, pyschiatric disabilities.

Greensprings is a sustainable and beautiful burial ground of meadows and woodlands located on one-hundred acres south of Cayuga Lake.

Therapeutic recreation services to relieve caregiver stress; professional organizing services