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During serious illness, CaringInfo is here to help you make informed decisions about care and services before a crisis.
Understanding and discussing topics like advance directives, palliative care, caregiving and hospice care may feel overwhelming on top of dealing with a serious or life-limiting illness. Our guides and resources are here to help you through the journey you are on and to aid you in understanding the choices you have.
You need help now. You or your loved one has a serious illness.
What’s the difference between hospice and palliative care?
What do you need to do to create an advance directive?
Getting Prepared for Care and Being Present
When facing a serious, life-limiting illness, you want to feel both prepared – so you can understand your choices and make decisions – and present – so that you are mindful of today’s needs.
Understanding and using the resources available to you, whether you are a patient or caregiver may be overwhelming. Whether its medical resources such as palliative care and hospice, financial resources such as Medicare and insurance, or other items like advance directives or bereavement care, we will help you navigate them so you can have the experience that is best for you.
Learn about:Creating an advance directiveUnderstanding Medicare & MedicaidQualifying for hospice careFinding palliative careCommunicating Care Wishes Openly and Honestly
Open, honest conversations about end-of-life will relieve loved ones and healthcare providers of the need to guess what you would want if you are ever facing a healthcare or medical crisis.
These conversations – initiated by the patient or by those caring for them – form the basis for any written expression of wishes such as an advance directive.
Learn about:Talking with your inner circleMaking a record of your wishesTalking with the doctorDealing with grief and lossGiving Care and Getting Support
Caregivers provide support to someone who needs help. It doesn’t matter how many hours per week are spent providing support, caring for a family member or friend is not easy, nor is it something most of us are prepared to do.
Often, we don’t even think of ourselves as caregivers, we are simply stepping up to do what needs to be done, be ...
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1. Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to footer
A program of the National Hospice and Pallative Care
Organization
Visit NHPCO.org
CaringInfo
Resources to help people make decisions about end-of-life care
and services before a crisis
Main MenuMain Menu
HomeHow to Prepare, Plan, and Be PresentI Need Help Now
Feeling overwhelmed? We have resources to help you sort
things out.TopicsAdvance
DirectivesCaregivingCommunicatingCOVID-19Financial
MattersGrief and LossRightsTypes of CareCurative
CarePalliative CareHospice CareComfort CareBereavement
CareDifference between Palliative and Hospice CareResources
During serious illness, CaringInfo is here to help you make
informed decisions about care and services before a crisis.
2. Understanding and discussing topics like advance directives,
palliative care, caregiving and hospice care may feel
overwhelming on top of dealing with a serious or life-limiting
illness. Our guides and resources are here to help you through
the journey you are on and to aid you in understanding the
choices you have.
You need help now. You or your loved one has a
serious illness.
What’s the difference between hospice and palliative
care?
3. What do you need to do to create an advance
directive?
Getting Prepared for Care and Being Present
When facing a serious, life-limiting illness, you want to feel
both prepared – so you can understand your choices and make
decisions – and present – so that you are mindful of today’s
needs.
Understanding and using the resources available to you, whether
you are a patient or caregiver may be overwhelming. Whether
its medical resources such as palliative care and hospice,
financial resources such as Medicare and insurance, or other
items like advance directives or bereavement care, we will help
you navigate them so you can have the experience that is best
for you.
4. Learn about:Creating an advance directiveUnderstanding
Medicare & MedicaidQualifying for hospice careFinding
palliative careCommunicating Care Wishes Openly and
Honestly
Open, honest conversations about end-of-life will relieve loved
ones and healthcare providers of the need to guess what you
would want if you are ever facing a healthcare or medical crisis.
These conversations – initiated by the patient or by those caring
for them – form the basis for any written expression of wishes
such as an advance directive.
Learn about:Talking with your inner circleMaking a record of
your wishesTalking with the doctorDealing with grief and
lossGiving Care and Getting Support
Caregivers provide support to someone who needs help. It
doesn’t matter how many hours per week are spent providing
support, caring for a family member or friend is not easy, nor is
it something most of us are prepared to do.
Often, we don’t even think of ourselves as caregivers, we are
simply stepping up to do what needs to be done, be it paying
bills, talking with doctors, or being present 24 hours a day.
These tasks can be new, even bewildering, but CaringInfo is
here to provide the information you need.
Learn about:Selecting the right type of carePreparing and
getting organized to be a caregiverOrganizations and
information that can helpTalking with others about their wishes
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CaringInfo is here to provide the information you need.
Preparing, Planning & Being Present
We’ve gathered guidance on a number of specific
topics relevant to understanding choices and making decisi ons
about care and services.
5. Types of Care That Are Available
We discuss palliative care, hospice, caregiving, and
bereavement care and how each have their own benefits and
aspects.
6. Resources that can help you wherever you are
A library of documents, websites, and organizations
that you may use to gain more information and support.
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