End of Life Care

Palliative care is a medical specialty. Palliative medicine can manage pain, control symptoms, and improve quality of life for as long as life remains.

Growth House, Inc. maintains a website to resources for life-threatening illness and end of life care. Their primary mission is to improve the quality of compassionate care for people who are dying through public education and global professional collaboration. Links to may topics such as children and dying, dying with specific diseases, etc.

Promoting Excellence in End of Life Care - A website and national program sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that provides information and links to resources for all intereted in improving care during the end of life.

Still under construction. Last updated 10/10/06