Additional Resources

Here are some additional resources concerning end-of-life issues and advance medical directives.
 

Organizations:

Americans for Better Care of the Dying (ABCD), a Washington, DC based, non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that all Americans can count on good end of life care.

1700 Diagonal Road, Suite 635
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-647-8505 phone
703-837-1233 fax
Email: info@abcd-caring.org

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), a nonprofit public benefit, charitable organization advocating for the needs of terminally ill persons.

1700 Diagonal Road, Suite 625
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
703/837-1500 (phone)
703/837-1233 (fax)
Email: info@nhpco.org info@nhpco.org
 

Phamphlets and Booklets:

Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, Artificial Feeding, Comfort Care and the Patient with a Life-Threatening Illness, by Hank Dunn. A&A Publishers, Inc. Over one million copies of this 48-page booklet on CPR, Artificial Feeding, Comfort Care and the Patient with a Life-Threatening Illness have been sold since 1990. Now in its fourth edition. Only $4.00 per copy. 

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