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| American Hospice Foundation |
| The American Hospice Foundation's mission is to improve access to quality hospice care through public education, professional training, and consumer advocacy. Its vision is that hospice will be an integral part of our society, culture and belief systems. |
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| Assuring Your Wishes |
| If you could not speak for yourself and were unable to make medical decisions, would your loved ones know what your wishes are? AssuringYourWishes.org makes your advance directives available to you anytime. There is no charge for filing your advance directives, viewing them or printing them. |
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| Compassion and Support at the End of Life |
| Individuals facing serious life-threatening illness and approaching death deserve to be treated with dignity, respect and compassion and to receive care that is focused on the individual’s goals for care. Families need and deserve to receive support. To achieve their goals, individuals need to plan ahead, know their choices, make sound decisions and share their wishes with their loved ones and health care professionals. This web site aims to educate and empower patients, families, health care and other professionals to accomplish this goal.
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| Decide Your Care |
| An alliance to promote advance healthcare decision-making |
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| End-of-Life Legislation in the United States--2001 |
| The American Bar Association Commission on Legal Problems for
the Elderly released its annual report examining end-of-life care
legislation enacted on the state level during the 2001 calendar year. The
report gives a detailed description of newly enacted laws covering the
areas of surrogate decision-making, do-not-resuscitate orders, and
palliative care. In all, 59 measures were approved in a total of 29
jurisdictions. This website provides that report.
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