Hospice

Caring Connections provides resources about hospice for your community outreach activities:

PowerPoint presentations: 

• Understanding Hospice, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Decisions (English) [PPT]
• Hospice Can Help You and Your Family (English) [PPT]
• Hospice Can Help You and Your Family (Spanish) [PPT]
• Hospice Can Help You and Your Family (Chinese) [PPT]

Consumer brochures on hospice and palliative care

• What is Hospice? [PDF]
• Hospice Care: A Consumer's Guide to Selecting a Hospice Program [PDF]
• Hospice Care and the Medicare Hospice Benefit [PDF]
• Hospice Volunteers: Helping People LIVE [PDF]
• What is Palliative Care? [PDF]
• How Can Palliative Care Help Me? [PDF]
• The Dying Process-A Guide for Family Caregivers [PDF]
• Additional Caring Connections brochures, including materials in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, are available on the brochures index page.  

Additional information on Hospice:

• Facts and Figures of Hospice Care from NHPCO
• Hospice Provides What Americans Want at the End of Life
• Common Misconceptions About Hospice
• The Medicare Hospice Benefit

Talking About Treatment Options and Palliative Care: A Guide for Physicians and Other Clinicians [PDF]

NHPCO Outreach Guide and Resources are available on the NHPCO website; members will need their ID and password to access these materials that include:

• Outreach guide 
• article collection
• media outreach documents
• ad slick collection
• member logos
• professional journal articles
• and more.