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Articles & Advice

Aging With Dignity (Regularly Updated)
Information, advice and legal tools for ensuring your rights.
Palliative Care and HIV (2006)
A chapter from Clinical Manual for Management of the HIV-Infected Adult.
From AIDS Education & Training Centers National Resource Center
How to Select a Hospice (2005)
From National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Six Frequently Asked Questions About Hospice and Palliative Care (2005)
From National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Peer Counseling Perspectives: Considering Hospice (August 2002)
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
End-of-Life Discussions and Preferences Among Persons With HIV (November 2001)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
You Have Choices at the End of Your Life (2001)
Why hospice care is still important.
From Compassion in Dying
Death With Dignity (Summer 1998)
Oregon's Death With Dignity Act.
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive
A Memo to All State Medical Boards (January 12, 1998)
On improving end-of-life pain and symptom management.
From Compassion in Dying
Hospice and Supportive Care (November 1997)
An overview of hospice care.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Compassion in Dying Goes National (Special Edition 1997)
From Compassion in Dying
University of Washington Research Team Seeks Volunteers to Tell Their Stories (Special Edition 1997)
From Compassion in Dying
What You Can Do to Help the Death With Dignity Movement (Special Edition 1997)
From Compassion in Dying

Resources & Advocacy

On Our Own Terms -- Bill Moyers on Dying (September 2000)
Resources from the Public Broadcasting System television special.
From Public Broadcasting Service
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
American Hospice Foundation
Dying Well
Dr. Ira Bock's resources for people facing life-limiting illness.
Find a Hospice or Palliative Care Program
Search engine for various resources.
George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health
An advocacy group working toward a more compassionate system of healthcare.
Hospice Association of America
Hospice Foundation of America
Hospice Information Service in the United Kingdom
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Partnership for Caring
Advocacy for improving end-of-life care.
The National Council for Palliative Care (United Kingdom)

Journals

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