Caring Connections - It's About How You LIVE

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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.

Caring Connections
-Provides free resources, information and motivation for actively learning about end-of-life resources.
-Promotes awareness of and engagement in efforts to increase access to quality end-of-life care.
-Helps people connect with the resources they need, when they need them.
-Brings together community, state and national partners working to improve end-of-life care.

Free Resources via website: www.caringinfo.org
Provides a variety of free resources on topics including:
-Advance care planning
-Caregiving
-Pain
-Financial issues
-Hospice and palliative care
-Grief and loss

NHPCO HelpLine, 800-658-8898
A toll-free helpline available to people looking for information, including educational brochures, advance directives or contact information for a hospice or other organization.
Free Publications
Addressing issues ranging from caregiving to paying for end-of-life care to grief and loss