Open Directory - Society: Issues: End-of-Life
See also: This category in other languages: - Report examines the role of psychology and psychologists in end-of-life decisions and quality of care issues. - A PBS program exploring the medical, ethical, and social issues surrounding end-of-life care in America today. Features real life stories about people who have faced these personal decisions. - Mission is to expand end-of-life choices and advance the legalization of physician aid in dying. - Seeks to improve care at the end of life through interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and outreach. - Official site for the psychiatrist who wrote the groundbreaking book "On Death and Dying." Biography, publications, quotes, and related links. - End-of-life issues - meeting the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and practical needs of terminally ill patients and their caregivers. - Gives the "dark side" of estate management plus involuntary redistribution of assets via trusts, wills, and guardianships. Exposes an industry where lawyers and others manipulate circumstances for asset distributions contrary to intended wishes of the deceased and disabled. - This on-line journal features peer-reviewed examples of promising practices in end-of-life care. - Campaign to improve care of the dying by coalition of healthcare professional and consumer organizations. News and discussion on death and dying, reports on palliative care, resource directory, free publications, and e-mail newsletter provided. - Four-part PBS series by television journalist Bill Moyers that focuses on end-of-life care in the U.S. - Discusses the withdrawal of food and fluids from PVS patients without other complicating conditions from a Christian viewpoint. - Resources for people with life-threatening diseases and transcripts of the radio program, "All Things Considered."
