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Resources/Links to External Organizations

For more information about end-of-life care and end-of-life planning, please visit the following websites. 

Hospice and Palliative Care Association of New York

This organization's mission statement is "to promote the availability and accesssibility of quality care for all persons in New York State confronted with life-limiting illness." To that end, their site provides updates on related public policy and advocacy issues, and features a search engine that helps you find hospice programs located in your area.
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National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

Since 2008, this advocacy group has been working toward the goal of enhancing end-of-life care by developing public and professional educational programs. Their site provides information and resources pertaining to end-of-life care, including a worksheet called Choosing a Quality Hospice, which is designed to help you find the program that's right for you.
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International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care 

The IAHPC is an organization that seeks to "help increase and optimize the availability of and access to hospice and palliative care for patients and their families through out the world." Their main goal is to help shape policy by providing information about hospice and palliative care to health care professionals and policy makers. 
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Hospice Journey

This website features resources, such as blog and book recommedations, that are tailored to individuals who are dealing with terminal illness.
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Advance Directives For All 50 States

Advance directives are forms that document a person's end-of-life wishes. Since each state has its own unique regulations and requirements concerning advance directives, Caring Connections provides on their website, links to each state's individual advance directive forms, as well as instructions that can help you fill the forms out correctly. 
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Contact

To find out more about end-of-life care from VNSNY, call our Referral Center at 212-609-1900, seven days a week.

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