www.autonomynow.org
AUTONOMY represents persons with disabilities who expect choice in all aspects of their lives, including choice at the end of life.
www.caringinfo.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
Caring Connections, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is a national consumer engagement initiative to improve care at the end of life, supported by a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
www.compassionandchoices.org/
Compassion & Choices is our parent organization. As a national organization with over 60 chapters and 30,000 members, our parent organization helps patients and their loved ones face the end of life with calm facts and choices of action during a difficult time. The national group also aggressively pursues legal reform to promote pain care, put teeth in advance directives and legalize physician aid in dying in other states.
www.compassionandsupport.org/
It is a website developed and coordinated by The Community-Wide End of Life/Palliative Care Initiative, an initiative of the Rochester Health Care Forum. The goal of this initiative is to ensure that care provided to a person who is approaching death, in pain, or both, meets the person's individual wishes and is of the highest quality, regardless of where this person lives or who is providing their care. The website has information about and sample Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (MOLST) forms.
www.deathwithdignity.org/
Death with Dignity National Center is one of the leaders in the death with dignity movement, based on its development, implementation and defense of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act.
www.hpcanys.org/
This statewide organization is dedicated to ensuring the availability and accessibility of quality hospice and palliative care for all persons in New York State confronted with life-limiting illness.
www.nhpco.org/templates/1/homepage.cfm
National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) cares for terminally ill persons and their families, and is dedicated to making hospice an integral part of the US health care system.
www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/pas/about_us.shtml
The Oregon Department of Human Services' webpage has all of the forms and annual reports on Oregon 's aid-in-dying law.
www.vachss.com/help_text/pain.html#org
Pain Management Resources provides a complete listing of groups from the American Alliance of Cancer Pain Initiatives to the Pain Research Institute.
www.medicaring.org/index.html
Palliative Care Policy Center (PCPC) offers expert support to hospitals, nursing homes, health systems, hospices, and other organizations that serve individuals nearing the end of life.
www.westchesterendoflife.org/
The Westchester End-of-Life Coalition has a vision of a community where people at the end of life are comfortable, cared for and supported. The website has an excellent list of frequently asked questions and answers on hospice and palliative care, health care proxies and pain and symtom managment.
www.worldrtd.net/
World Federation provides an international link for organizations working to secure or protect the rights of individuals to self-determination at the end of their lives.
